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The ''''University MamiaV is mainly a revision of 
the " Manual of the Regents of the University ^^'' pub- 
lished in 1864, with such additional matter as is 
needed to render the work complete for use at the 
present time. 

The " forms for the annual reports of colleges " con- 
tain several new requirements, the strict observance 
of which will render such reports more valuable for 
statistical purposes and for general reference. 

Besides two new chapters containing the statutes 
relative to the additional law libraries founded by 
the State, and the care of certain legislative papers 
and records, with occasional sections of other chaptei-s 
quoted from acts passed since 1864, there have been 
also inserted a catalogue of the persons upon whom 
honorary degrees have been conferred by the Regents ; 
the plan of organization of the University Convoca- 
tion ; an alphabetical list of all persons who have 
acted as Regents from 1 784 to the present time; and 
a copious index to the whole work ; all which, it is 
believed, will render the " University Manual'''* 
more convenient and useful than the work which it 
supersedes. '^ 



00]^TES'TS. 



PAJRT I. 

LAWS RELATIVE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF THIS 

STATE, AND THE ORGANIZATION AND 

POWERS OF THE BOARD OF 

REGENTS. 

Chapter I. 
Organization and Powers of the Boa/rd of Beaents. 

Pages 1 — 8. 
Sec. Page. 

1. University instituted ; government vested in regents, . 1 

2. Name and corporate powers 1 

3. Number of regents ; ex-offido members designated, ... 2 

4. Regents, bow appointed and removed, 2 

5. Vacancies, bow supplied, 2 

6. No regent to act as trustee, and mce versa, 2 

7. No president of a college or principal of an academy tc 

be a regent, 2 

8. Officers of tbe board designated ; bow cbosen and ten- 
ure of office, 3 

9. Presiding officer designated ; bas casting vote, 3 

10. Annual meeting to be beld ; time and place designated, 3 

11. Otber meetings, wben and wbere to be beld, and by 
wbom to be called, 3 

12. Quorum of the board, and power to adjourn witb or 
without a quorum, 3 

13. Meetings, how to be called, and on what notice, ... .3, 4 

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VI CONTENTS. 

Sec. Pf^ge 

14. Non-attendance daring tlie legislative session, to bo 
deemed a resignation and so declared, 4 

15. Duty of treasurer of the board, 4 

16. Duties of secretary, as to journal and the entry of ayes 

and noes, 4 

17. Regents may have access to, and n^ake copies of books 
and papers of the board, 4 

18. Instructed to visit and inspect colleges and academies, 

and to report thereon, , 4, 5 

19. Full power to examine the affairs of institutions con- 
ferred upon the regents and their secretary, 5 

20. Regents authorized to confer degrees by diploma, 5 

21. Regents' degree of M. D. to confer authority to prac- 
tice physic and surgery within this state, 5 

22. Requisites for regents' degree of M D., 5, 6 

23. Regents may confer honorary degree of M. D., on 
nominees of State Medical Society, 6 

24 Regents may, in certain cases, fill vacancies in oflSces of 
president and principal, ■. . . . 6 

25, 26. Tenure of office of such appointees ; their powers^ 
emoluments, etc., 6, 7 

27. Regents may permit income of certain trust funds to 
accumulate, 7 

28. Grants to regents for certain uses, not to be otherwise 

applied, 7 

29. Regents authorized to make by-laws and ordinances, . . 7 

30. Authorized to send for persons and papers, 7, 8 

Chapter II. 

Incorporation of Colleges, Academies, and Lancasteriaii and 

Select Schools. 

Pages 9—20. 

1. Citizens disposed to found a literary college may ap- 
ply to regents for incorporation, 9 



CONTENTS. Vn 

Sec. Page. 

2. Founders of an academy may apply to regents for in- 
corporation, 10 

3. Approbation of regents, "how declared, 10 

4. When and how property and funds are vested, 10 

5. Regents may prescribe conditions of incorporation, 

and may incorporate institutions of learning, 10, 11 

6. Incorporation of medical colleges, preliminaries to, 11, 12 

7. Conditions of incorporation, 12 

8. Amount of real estate which may be held, 12, 13 

9. Such colleges subject to provisions of revised statutes, 
and to visitation of regents, 13 

10. Number and powers of trustees, 13, 14 

11. Trustees of medical colleges may confer degree of doc- 
tor of medicine, 14 

12. Indigent students to be admitted to instruction,. . . 14, 15 

13. Academy or high school may create capital stock,. ... 15 

14. Conditions on which any such corporation may be de- 
clared an academy, 15, 16 

15. No dividends to be paid while outstanding indebted- 
ness exists, 16 

16. Regents may alter, amend or repeal charters 16 

17 All applications for charters, and all charters to be re- 

corded, 16 

18 Fees for recording applications, etc., abolished, 17 

19. Regents to cause charters in office of secretary of 

State to be transcribed 17 

20. Copies of records may be read in evidence, 17 

21. Any union free school may establish an academical de- 

partment when needed, 17, 18 

23. Such department to be under the visitation of the 

regents, 18 

23. An academy may become the academical department of 

a union school, on certain conditions, 18 

24. Privileges of union schools, 18, 19 



Vlil CONTENTS. 

Sec. Page. 

25. Founders of Lancasterian schools may apply to be in- 
corporated, 19 

26. Regents may incorporate such schools, 19 

27. Request and instrument, where to be recorded, 19 

28. Property and funds how vested, 19 

29. Such schools under visitation of regents, 20 

30. Greneral act of incorporation, 20 

31. Amount of endowment allowed, 20 

32. Applicable to former organizations, 20 

Chapter III. 

Powers and Duties of Trustees of Colleges, Academies, etc. 

Pages 21—29. 

1. Colleges, 21—23. 

1. Trustees to be a corporation, 21 

2. Meetings, how called, 21 

3. Notices, how given, 21 

4. Seniority among trustees, how determined, 21 

5. Number of trustees ; what number a quorum, 21 

6. Powers of trustees enumerated, 22, 23 

7. Privileges conferred by diplomas, 23 

2. Academies, 23 — 27. 

8. Trustees to be a corporation ; name ; number ; what 

number a quorum, 23, 24 

9. Powers of trustees enumerated, 24, 25 

10. Meetings, how called, and by whom, 25 

11. Time and place, how appointed, . 25 

12. Notice, how to be given ; who to preside,. .......... 25 

13. Seniority among trustees, how determined, 25 

14. In what case the office of a trustee may be vacated, . . 26 

15. Absence for a year to be deemed a resignation, 26 

16 and 17. Number of trustees, how reduced, 26 

18. Special powers of trustees of stock corporations,. . . .26, 27 



CONTENTS. ix 

Sec. Page. 

3. Lancasterian and Select Schools, 27 — 29 

19. Trustees to be a corporation, 27 

20. Powers of trustees enumerated, 27, 28 

21. OfBce of trustee, how vacated, 28 

22. Sucli school liow made a district school, 28 

23. Entitled to benefits of district schools, 29 

24. Subject to visitation of the regents, 29 

4. Oeneral Provisions applicable to Colleges and Academies, 29. 

25. No religious qualification to be required from profess- 
ors, tutors, etc., 29 

26. No professor or tutor to be a trustee 29 

27. No president or principal to vote as trustee relative to 
his own emoluments, 29 

Chapter IV. 

Annual Reports of Colleges and Academies, and the Bistrihw- 
tion of the Public Funds. 

Pages 30—36. 

1. Reports to be made, 30 

2. Regents to prescribe forms, 30 

3. Trustees to declare termination of academic year,. ... 30 

4. Annual reports of academies, when to be transmitted, 31 

5. Report to be attestsd by oath of principal, and what 

to contain, 31, 32 

6. Annual apportionment to academies, 32 

7. Distribution, how to be made, 32 

8. Classical and higher English studies defined, 32 

9. Conditions of participating in distribution of literature 
fund, and what other schools may be admitted, . . .32, 33 

10. Certain academies to instruct teachers, 33, 34 

11. Schedule of distribution to be delivered to the comp- 
troller, 34 



X CONTENTS. 

Sec. Page. 

12. Comptroller to draw Ms warrant in favor of eacli in- 
stitution, 34 

13. Moneys from literature and U. S. deposit funds to be 

applied to payment of teachers' salaries, 34 

14. Appropriations for purchase of books and appara- 
tus, 34, 35 

15. Amount limited and conditionally granted, 35 

16. Power of regents to grant relief, 35 

17. Regents to report to the legislature, and when, . . .35, 36 

Chapter V. 

State Normal School, and Instruction of Common School Teachers 

in Academies. 

Pages 37—39. 

1. State Normal School, under whose management ; ex- 
ecutive committee, fS7 

2. Annual report to be made to the legislature, 38 

3. Appropriations for instruction of common school 
teachers in academies, 38, 39 

4. Comptroller when to draw warrant, 39 

Chapter VI. 
State Library and State Cabinet or Museum of Natural History. 

Pages 40 — 45. 

1. Regents to be trustees of state library, 40 

2 and 3. Trustees to appoint librarians and messenger, 

and prescribe rules, 40 

4. Library, when to be kept open, 40 

5. Duties of librarian, 41 

6. Trustees to direct him, 41 

7. Trustees may sell or exchange duplicates, etc., 41 

8. Annual report to be made to the legislature, ..... .41, 42 



CONTENTS. XI 

Sec. Page. 

9. Members of the legislature may take books, 42 

10. Penalty for not returning books, 42 

1 1 . Books not to be taken from library by otber persons, . 42 

12. Heads of departments and trustees may take books,.. 43 

13. Judges of court of appeals, and justices of supreme 
court may take books, 43 

14. Copies of court of appeals' reports to be deposited in 
state library, 43 

15. Eegents of tlie university to provide for safe keeping 

of cabinet of natural history 43 

16. Hall of state cabinet, in whose charge placed, 43 

17. State museum of natural history established, 44 

18 Organization of, on plan recommended by the regents, 44 

19. Course of free scientific lectures to be organized, 44 

20. Salary of oflicers, 44 

21. Botanical department to be continued three years, ... 44 

Concurrent Resolutions relative to the State Library. 

1. Trustees may make rules etc., and may limit use of 
library to certain persons, 45 

2. Copies of all extra documents to be furnished by state 
printer, 45 

Chapter YII. 

In regard to the Additional Laio Libraries founded hy the State. 
Pages 46 — 51. 

Court of Appeals' Libraries. 

1. Establishment of a library authorized, 46 

2. Second library authorized, 46, 47 

3. Librarian to be appointed by the regents, 47 

4. Libraries to be provided for the elected judges of the 
court of appeals, 47, 48 



Xll CONTENTS. 

Sec. Page. 

5. Clerk of court of appeals to keep certain funds in- 
vested, 48 

6. Regents to frame library rules and regulations,. ... 48, 49 

7. Library of first judicial district established; trustees 

of state library authorized to transfer duplicates, 49 

8. Library of second judicial district established; trustees 
required to report to the regents, • 49 

9. Library of fourth judicial district established, 50 

10. Required to report to the regents ; trustees of state 
library authorized to transfer duplicates, 50 

11. Library of eighth judicial district established ; trustees 
required to report to the regents, 51 

12. Trustees of state library authorized to transfer dupli- 
cates, 51 

13. State library, etc., considered as also judicial district 
libraries for the districts in which they are lo- 
cated, 49—51 

Chapter VIII. 

In regard to certain Papers and Records. 

Pages 52 — 54. 

1. Manuscript papers of the legislature on file more than 
five years, placed in charge of the regents, 52 

2. Papers in state offices not to be included, 52 

3. Suitable room to be provided, 52 

4. Regents to have sole charge of such papers, 52, 53 

5. Duties of regents and clerks of senate and assembly,. 53 

6. Certified copies of papers may be furnished and be 
allowed in evidence, 53, 54 

7. Duty of joint library committee of the legislature,. . . 54 



CONTENTS. xm 

P»ART II. 

ORDINANCES OF THE EEGENTS. 
Chaptek IX. 

Incorporation of Colleges. 

Pages 55 — 56. 
Bee. Page. 

1. Conditions of incorporation, 55 

3. Charters, when to be granted, 56 

Chapter X. 

Incorporation of Academies. 

Pages 57—77. 

1. Conditions of incorporation, and of being received 
under ^dsitation, 57-59 

2 and 3. Application for incorporation must show what, . 59-61 

4. Notice of application for amendment of charter to be 

published in state paper and in a local paper, 61 

Forms of Applications for Incoi^poration, 61 — 76. 

I. For incorporation with absolute charter, 61-67 

Form of charter granted on such application, 67, 68 

II. For incorporation with provisional charter, 68-76 

1. With capital stock, 68-70 

2. Not with capital stock, 72 — 75 

3. Form of charter granted on such applications, 71, 72 

III. For declaring provisional charter absolute, 75 

IV. For an academy already incorporated to become sub- 
ject to visitation, , . 75, 76 

V. For having the academic department of a union 

school received under visitation, 76, 77 

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XIV CONTENTS. 

Chapter XI. 

Annual Reports of Academies. 

Pages 78—81. 

1. As to Financial Condition, 78 — 80. 
Sec. Page. 

1. Trustees to report value of property-, 78 

2. Annual report when to be made, and what to con- 
tain, 79. 80 

2. As to Literary and Scientific Condition, 80. 81. 
3 and 4. Report,. what to contain and how to be authenti- 
cated, 80, 81 

Chapter XII. 

Examinatio7i and Classification of Scholars, and Distributioii of 
the Literature Fund. 

Page 82 — 101. 

1. Scholars to be divided into classes, 82 

2. Examinations in writing to be held, and records to be 
kept, 82, 83 

3. Papers to be sent to the regents, and certificates to be 
•granted to scholars who pass, 83 

4. Provisional examinations to be held, 83, 84 

5. What scholars are to be regarded as classical or higher 

English, ; 62 

6. Academic scholars to be exercised in composition, 

etc., 84, 85 

7. Apportionment of literature fund when made ; form of 
draft for, 85, 86 

8. Money assigned for text-books and apparatus, on what 

conditions, 86 

9 Money not to be assigned to any academy oftener than 
once a year, nor in excess of $250, 86, 87 



CONTENTS. XV 

Sec. Page 

10. Money to be applied to purposes specified, 87 

11. Chancellor and secretary to certify appropriations for 
books, etc., to tbe comptroller, 87 

12. Appropriations not to be applied to make up amount 
requisite for incorporation, - 87 

IB. Contributions on which applications for appropriations 

by the regents are based, must be in money, 87 

14. Term " text-book " includes what, 87, 88 

15.- Expenditure to be fully accounted for, 88 

16. When applications ^exceed the amount at disposal of 
the regents, what discrimination to be made, 88 

17. Appropriations, when to be made, 88 

18. Form of application for appropriation, 88-90 

19. Form of draft for appropriation, 90 

List of Books recommended for Academy Libraries. 

19. For purposes of reference, 90, 91 

20. For miscellaneous uses, 91-101 

Apparatus. 

21. Articles of apparatus recommended, 101 

Chapter XIII. 

Books of Record and Employment of Teachers. 

Pages 102,103. 

1. Trustees required to keep records of proceedings, .... 102 
2 and 3. Also school registers, ... 102 

4. Records to be the property of the academy, 102 

5. Regents to inquire whether these requirements are ob- 

served, 102 

6. Trustees to employ teachers and fix their compen- 
sation, 103 



XVI CONTENTS. 



Chapter XIV. 

Form of the Annual Reports of Academies. 

Pages 104—124. 
Sec. Page. 

1. Ground for academy buildings, 104 

3. Academy buildings, 105 

3. Academy library ; books received from the state ; 
books of record, 1 05, ' 106 

4. Philosopliical apparatus, 106 

5. Certificate of committee on examination of library 

and apparatus, 106 

6. Title to property, 107 

7. Otber academic property, 107 

8. Debts and incumbrances, 108 

9. Summary statement of academic property, 108 

10. General cash account ; certificate of auditing com- 
mittee, 109, 110 

11. Revenue and expenditure account, Ill, 112 

t 

12. Money received from literature fund, liow expended,. . 112 

13. Money raised and granted for purchase of books and 
apparatus, how expended, 113 

14. Statistics, etc., teachers employed, 113 

15. Employment of teachers, whether by fixed salaries or 

otherwise, etc., 114 

16. Subjects of study pursued and text-books used,. . 114-116 

17. Number of students, how classified, etc., 116, 117 

18. Prices or rates of tuition, 117 

19. Gratuitous instruction, 118 

20. Academic terms, vacations and examinations, 118 

21. Summary statement of expenses for tuition, etc., 118 

22. Physical education, 118 

23- Officers of board of trustees, meetings, and standing 

committees, 118, 119 



CONTENTS. XV 11 

Sec. ' Page. 

24. Certificate of committee on schedule, 119 

25. Conclusion and authentication of report, 120 

26. Affidavit of presiding officer, 120 

27. Affidavit of principal and principal's schedule, . . . 121-124 

Chapter XV. 
Instruction of Common School Teachers. 

Pages 125—132. 

Form of application by an academy, for appointment to 

instruct a teachers' class, 135 

Instructions to be observed in conducting teachers' 

class, 126-130 

Form of report on instruction of teachers' class,. . . . 130-132 

Appropriation for instruction, when made, 132 

Form of draft for appropriation, 132 

Chapter XVI. 

Form of the Annual Reports of Colleges. 

Pages 133—153. 

I. Literary Colleges, 133 — 145. 

1 Number and description of professorships, 133 

2. Trustees, meetings of the board, faculty and other col- 
lege officers, 133, 134 

3. Number of students, „ 135 

4. Classification of students, 135, 136 

5. Commencement exercises, . . . . , 136 

6. College terms or sessions, 136 

7. Subjects or course of study, 137 

8. Exercises : literary, physical, etc., 137, 138 

9. Exhibitions and prize contests, 138 

10. Examinations, 138, 139 



XVlll CONTENTS. 

Sec. Page. 

11. Mode of instruction, 139 

12. Discipline, ' 139 

13. Gratuitious aid, 140 

14. Statutes or by laws of the college, 140 

15. Description and value of buildings, etc., 140, 141 

16. Description and value of other college property, 141 

17. Debts, 142 

18. Revenue, 142, 148 

19. Expenditure, 143 

20. Tabular statement, 143, 144 

21. Price of tuition, 144 

22. Remarks, 144 

23. Close of report, 144, 145 

II. Medical Colleges, 145 — 153. 

1. Number and description of professorships, 145 

2. Trustees, faculty and other college oflQcers, 146 

8. Number of students, 147 

4. Classification of students, 147 

5. College term or session, 147 

6. Mode of instruction, 147, 148 

7. Discipline 148 

8. Gratutious aid, 148 

9. Statutes or by-laws, 148, 149 

10. Examinations and graduation, 149 

11. Description and value of buildings, etc., 149, 150 

12. Description and value of other college property, 150 

13. Debts, 150,151 

14. Revenue, 151 

15. Expenditure, 151 

16. Fees, 151 

17. Tabular statement, 152 

18. Remarks, 152 

19. Close of report, 152, 153 



CONTE"NTS. XIX 

Chapter XVIL 

Miscellaneous Besolutions, Degrees, etc. 

Pages 154—161. 

Sec. Page. 

1. Regents hold two general business sessions annually, 154 

2. Standing committees to attend on morning of day 
fixed for annual meeting, 154 

2. Annual reports required from trustees of academies in 

which instruction has been suspended, 154 

Honorary Degrees, 155 — 160. 

4. Applications for honorary degrees to be signed by 
two or more regents, 155 

5. Nominations for degrees to be referred to committee on 
degrees, 155 

6. List of honorary degrees conferred by the regents, . 155-160 

University Convocation. 

7. Membership, how constituted, 160 

■8. Officers, how constituted, 160 

9. Time of meeting, 160 

10. Executive committee, how constituted, etc, 160 

11. Committee on necrology, how constituted, etc., 161 

12. Information as to deceased members to be furnished,. 161 

13. Secretary to publish resolutions of 1863, etc, from 
year to year, for information of members, 161 



XX CONTENTS. 



PAIiT III. 

INSTITUTION AND ORGANIZATION OF THE UNIVER- 
SITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 

Chapter XVIII. 

Legislative Acts. 

Pages 162-193. 

Page. 

An act for granting certain privileges to the college here- 
tofore called King's College, for altering the name and 
charter thereof, and erecting an University v^ithin this 
State, passed the 1st day of May, 1784, 162-173 

An act to amend an act entitled " An act for granting cer- 
tain privileges to the college heretofore called King's 
College, for altering the name and charter thereof, and 
erecting an University within this State," passed the 1st 
day of May, 1784,— passed 26th November, 1784, . . 172-175 

An act to institute an University v^^ithin this State, and for 
other purposes therein mentioned, passed 13th April, 
1787, 176-193 

Chapter XIX. 

Begents of the TTniversity. ■ 

Pages 194-213. 
I. Regents appointed under the acts of the Legislature 
of May 1, and November 26, 1784, arranged in the 
order of seniority as established by the said acts, . 194-197 

1. Ex-officio regents, 194, 195 

2. Additional regents, 195, 196 

Organization of the board, May 5, 1784, 

and continued v^ithout change until April 
13,1787, 196, 197 



CONTENTS. Xxi 

Page. 
II. Regents appointed under the act of April 13, 1787, 

arranged by classes, in the order of succession un- 
der each class, 187-203 

1. Ex-officio regents, 197-199 

Governors, 197, 198 

Lieutenant-Governors, 198, 199 

Secretaries of State, 199 

Superintendents of Public Instruction, 199 

2. Regents appointed by the Legislature,. . . 199-203 

III. Alphabetical list of Regents of the University, from 

1784 to 1870, with dates of accession to office, . . 204-211 

IV. Officers of the Board of Regents, from its organization 

in 1784, to 1870, 211, 213 

Chancellors, 211 

Vice-Chancellors, 212 

Secretaries, 212 

Assistant Secretary, 212 

V. Officers and members of the Board of Regents at the 

close of the Legislative session of 1870, 213 

Chapter XX. 

University of the State of New York. Catalogue of the Colleges 
and Academies composing the University, and in operation in 
1870, with their location, etc. 

Pages 214-223. 

Literary colleges, 214, 215 

Medical colleges, 215 

Scientific school, 215 

Academies, and academical departments of Union 
schools, 216-223 



XXU CONTENTS. 

APPENDIX. 

Page. 
Observations by Gideon Hawlej, LL.D., late Secretary of 
the Regents, on certain branches of academic instruc- 
tion, 224-249 

Preliminary remarks 224-227 

Extent of elementary studies, 227, 228 

Pronunciation of the English language, 229, 230 

Subjects of study, 230 

Physical education, 231-235 

Extent of study memoriter, or by rote, 235-243 

Composition, as a scholastic exercise, 242-249 

Index, 2o0-fin. 



STATE OF NEW TORE. 



UWIYEESITT MAH"UAL. 



r^Ai^T I. 

LAWS EELATIVE TO THE UNIVERSITY OP THIS 

STATE, AND THE ORGANIZATION AND 

POWERS OP THE BOARD OP 

REGENTS. 

[The references are to the first edition of the Revised Statutes.] 



CHAPTER I. 

OEGAlSriZATION AND POWERS OF THE BOARD OP 

REGENTS. 

Section 1. An university is instituted in this state, 
University, of which, the government is, and shall con- 
tinue to be, vested in a board of regents. [1 R. S, 
456, § 1.] 

§ 2. This university is incorporated under, and is 
Name and and shall be known by, the name of " The 

corporate . . n -i n 

powers. Regents oi the University of the btate of 
New York ; " and by that name shall have perpetual 
succession, power to sue and be sued, to make and 
use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure, to 
hold property, real and personal, to the amount of 
the annual income of forty thousand bushels of wheat, 
and to buy and sell, and otherwise dispose of, lands 
and chattels. [Tbid. § 2.] 



2 LAWS RELATIVE TO 

§ 3. The regents are twenty-three in number, in- 
j^^n^ijy J. of eluding the governor, lieutenant-governorj 
regents, secretary of state and superintendent of pub- 
lic instruction, who are members of the board by 
virtue of their offices. [Ibid. ^ 3 ; Laws o/ 1842, 
ch. 142; 1854, ch. 97, § 5.] 

§ 4. With the exception of the governor, lieutenant- 
How ap- governor, secretary of state and superintend- 
aud^^re^- ^^^ of public instruction, the regents are 
moved, appointed by the legislature, and may be 
removed by a concurrent resolution of the senate 
and assembly. [1 R. S. 457, § 4.] 

§ 5. All vacancies happening in the offices of those 

Vacancies, SO appointed, shall be suT)plied by the legis- 
how sup- . . , . , , ^ 

plied. lature, m the manner m which the state om- 

cers are directed to be appointed, in the fifth chapter 

of this act. [1 R. S. 104, § 5 ; 457, § 5.] 

§ 6. No trustee of a college or academy, shall act 

No reo-ent ^^ ^ regent of the university, and no regent 

trustee^^ of the university shall act as trustee of any 

trastee^as college or academy ; and if any such trustee 

regent, gi^all be apj)ointed a regent, or a regent shall 

be appointed a trustee, he shall elect in which office 

he will serve, and give notice of such election to the 

authority by which he shall be appointed, within sixty 

days from the time of his appointment, otherwise 

such appointment shall be void. [1 R. S. 464, § 53.] 

§ 7. ISTo president, principal, or other officer of any 
d^ont^o?' such college or academy, shall be a regent of 
tobe^a'i^e- the university. [1 R. S. 464, § 52.] 

gent. 



THE BOA.ED OF EEGEIS^TS. 3 

§ 8. The officers of this corporation are a chancel- 
Officers. lor, a vice-chancellor, a treasurer and a sec- 
retary, all of whom are chosen by the regents, by 
ballot ; a plurality of votes being sufficient to a choice. 
They hold their respective offices during the pleasure 
of the board. [1 R. S. 457, § 6.] 

§ 9. The chancellor, and if he shall be absent, the 

Presidino- vice-chanccllor, and if both be absent, the 

officer, senior regent in the order of appointment, 

shall preside at all meetings of the regents, and have 

a casting vote in case of a division. \^Ibid. § 7.] 

S 10. There shall be an annual meetino- of the re- 
Annual geuts on the evening of the second Thursday 
meeting. ^^^ January, in every year, at the senate 
chamber in the capitol. [Ihid. § 8.] 

§ 11, All meetings, except adjourned meetings, shall 
other ^® heldi at such time and place as the chan- 
meetmgs. ggjior, or in case his office be vacant, or he 
be absent from the state, the vice-chancellor, or if he 
be also absent, or the offices of both be vacant, the 
senior regent in the state, shall appoint. [Ibid, § 9.] 

8 12. Six resfents attendino;, shall be aboard for 
Quorum, the transaction of business ; and the regents 
present, whether a quorum or otherwise, shall have 
power to adjourn from time to time, not exceeding 
ten days at a ti-me. [Ihid. § 10, Laios of 1853, ch. 
184, § 5.] 

§ 13. A meeting shall be ordered and called by the 

Caiiincrof o^^^^r authorized to appoint the same, as 

meetings. Qf^gj^ ^s three regents, in writing, so request : 



4 LAWS RELATIVE TO 

and the order shall be published in the state paper at 
least ten days prior to the meeting. [1 R. S. 457^ 

/§ 11-] 

§ 14. If any regent shall not attend at least once 
Non-at- ^* ^^y ^^ ^^^® meetings of the regents to be 
tendance. i^q\^ during any session of the legislature, 
when by law they are required to meet, without some 
just cause satisfactory to the board of regents, such 
non-attendance shall be deemed a resignation of their 
seats, and it shall be the duty of the regents to re- 
port to the legislature, from time to time, the names 
of the members whose seats shall thus become vacant, 
to the end that the same may be supplied. \_Ijaios of 
1815, ch. 207; 1845, ch. 179, § 3.] 

§ 15. The treasurer shall keep an account of all 
Treasurer, moneys by him received and paid out. [l R, 
S. 457, § 12.] 

§ 16. The secretary shall keep a journal of the 
Secretary, proceedings of the regents, in which the ayes 
and noes on all questions shall be entered, if requested 
by any one of the regents present. [Ibid. § 13.] 

§ 1 7. Each regent may always have access to, and 

Books and ^® permitted to take copies of, all the books 

papers. ^^^ papers of the corporation. Ibid. ^ 14.] 

§ 18. The regents are authorized and required, by 
Power of themselves or their committees, to visit and 
visitation, inspect all the colleges and academies in this 
state, examine into the condition and system of edu- 
cation and discipline therein, and make an annual 



THE BOARD OP EEGEISTTS. 5 

report of the state of the same, to the legislature. 
\Ihicl § 15.] 

§ 19. The regents of the university shall have full 
Ibid. power to examine by themselves or their 
secretary, into the manner in which all institutions 
of learning subject to their visitation are conducted, 
to the end that they may report the same to the leg- 
islature. [Laws of 1857, ch. 527, § 3.] 

§ 20. The regents shall have the right of conferring, 
May confer ^y <^iploma under their common .seal, on any 
degrees, person whom they may judge worthy thoreoij 
such degrees, above that of master of arts, as are known 
to, and usually granted by, any college or university 
in Europe.'^ [l H. S. 458, § 18.] 

§ 21. A degree of doctor of medicine, granted by 
Degrees of ^^^ regents, shall authorize the person on 
^- ^- whom it is conferred, to practice physic and 
surgery within this state.f {Ibid. § 19.] 

§ 22. No person shall receive from the regents of 
Requisites the university a diploma, conferring the de- 
of M. D. gree of doctor of medicine, unless he shall 
have pursued the study of medical science for at 
least three years, after the age of sixteen, with some 
physician and surgeon, duly authorized, by law 
to practice his profession, and shall also, after the 

* The trustees of the New York College of Dentistry, have power to 
grant the degree of " doctor of dental surgery," «,nd " fellow of the col- 
lege of dentistry," with the consent of the regents. [Laws of 1865, ch. 
264, § 5 ; 1867, ch. 243.] 

t The right reserved to the regents by the act of April 5, 1813, to con- 
fer degrees, appoint profossors,"fill vacancies in the board of trustees, 
etc., in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the city of New York, 
was granted to, and vest'ed in the trustees of said college, by the act of 
March 24, 1860. [Laws of 1860, ch. Ill, § 1.] 



6 LAWS EELATIVE TO 

same age, have attended two complete courses of 
all the lectures delivered in an incorporated medical 
college, and have attended the last of such courses, 
in the college by which he shall be recommended for 
his degree, [l R. S. 454, § 12.] 

§ 23. The regents of the university may in their dis- 
Honorary cretion confcr the honorary degree of doctor 
M. i). of medicine upon such persons, not to exceed 
four in any one year, as may be recommended to 
them for that purj^ope, by the medical society of this 
state, but such honorary degree shall in no case be 
a license to practice physic or surgery.* [Laws of 
1840,ch. 366.] 

§ 24. In case the trustees of any college shall leave 
Vacancies ^^^® office of president of the college, or the 
and^acade^ trustees of any academy shall leave the 
mies. office of principal of the academy, vacant, 
for the space of one year, the regents shall fill up such 
vacancy, unless a reasonable cause shall be assigned 
for such delay, to their satisfaction, [l R. S. 458, 
§ 20.] 

§ 25. The person so appointed, shall continue in 
office during the pleasure of the regents, and shall 
Ibid. have the same powers, and the same salary, 
emoluments and privileges, as his next immediate 
predecessor in office enjoyed. [Ibid. § 21.] 

§ 26. If such president or principal had no imme> 
Ibid. diate predecessor in office, he shall have such 

* Similar privileges are extended to the Homoeopathic Medical Society 
and the Dental Society of this State. [Laws of 1862, ch. 26rf, § 3 ; 1868, ch. 
152 S 14 1 

The honorary degree of Fellow of the College of Dentistry may be con- 
ferred under authority of ch. 243, Laws of 1867. 



THE BOAED OF REGENTS. 7 

salary as the regents shall direct, to be paid by the 
trustees out of the funds or property of their college 
or academy. [Ibid. § 22.] 

§ 27. The income arising from any real or personal 
Accumuia- pi'operty granted or conveyed, devised or 
come'from bequeathed in trust to any incorporated eol- 
trast rds. iggg Qj, other incorporated literary institution 
for any of the purposes specified in the " act author- 
izing certain trusts," passed May 14, 1840, or for the 
purpose of providing for the support of any teacher 
in a grammar school or institute, may be permitted 
to accumulate till the same shall amount to a sum 
sufficient, in the opinion of the regents of the univer- 
sity, to carry into effect either of the |)urposes afore- 
said, designated in said trust. [Laws of 1846, ch. 
74; 1840, ch. 318.] 

§ 28. Grants made to the regents for certain uses 
Grants to ^^^ purposes, shall not be applied, either 
regents, ^^j^olly or in part, to any other uses. [1 R. 
S. 458, §17.] 

§ 29. The regents shall have power to make such 
Power to by-laws and ordinances, as they shall judge 
laws, most expedient, for the accomplishment of the 
trust reposed in them. [Ibid. § 16.] 

§ 30. The regents of the university of the state of 

Power to ^ew York, and any committee thereof, in 

persons^ the discharge of any duty required by law, 

and paper's q^ by resolution of the senate or assembly, 

may require any proof or information relating thereto, 

to be verified by oath, and shall for such purposes 



LAWS RELATIVE TO 



(and no other) have the powers now by law vested 
in any committee of either house authorized to send 
for persons and papers. [Laws 0/ 1839, ch. 226 ; 1 E,. 
S. 158.] 



IS"COEPOEATION OF COLLEGES, ETC. 



CHAPTER II. 

INCOBPORATIO^ 

CASTEEIAlSr AND SELECT SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 1. Any citizen or citizens, or bodies corporate 
Literary within this State, being disposed to found a 
h?w fncor- College at any place within the same, he or 
porated. they shall, in writing, make known to the 
regents the place where, the plan on which, and the 
funds with which, it is intended to found and provide 
for the same, and who are proposed for the first trus- 
tees; and in case the regents shall approve thereof, 
then they shall declare their approbation by an in- 
strument under their common seal, and allow a con- 
venient time for completing the same ; and if at the 
expiration of the said time, it shall appear to the sat 
isfaction of the regents, that the said plan and propo- 
sitions are fully executed, then they shall, by act 
under their common seal, declare that the said col- 
lege, to be named as the founders shall signify, and 
with such trustees not exceeding twenty-four, nor less 
than ten, as they shall name, shall forthwith become 
incorporated, and shall have perpetual succession, and 
enjoy all the corporate rights and privileges enjoyed 
by Columbia College, in and by the act entitled "An 
act to institute an university within this state, and 
for other purposes therein mentioned," passed April 
13, 1787. [Zaws of 1813, ch. 59, § 6.] 



10 LAWS EELATIYE TO 

§ 2. The founders and benefactors of any academy, 
Acade- ^^' ^^ many of them, as shall have contri- 
Scorpo^-^ bated more than one half in value, of the 
rated- property collected for the use thereof, may 
make to the regents an application in writing under 
their hands, requesting that such academy may be 
incorporated, nominating .the first trustees, and spe- 
cifying the name by which the corporation is to be 
called. [1 R. S. 461, § 38.] 

§ 3. In case the regents shall approve thereof, tbey 
Ibid. shall, by an instrument under their common 

seal, declare their approbation of the incorporation 
of the trustees of such academy, by the name speci- 
fied in such application ; and the request, and instru- 
ment of approbation, shall be recorded in the ofBce 
of the secretary of the board of regents. [^Ihid. § 
39; Laws of 1855, ch. 471, § 1.] 

§ 4. Immediately after recording the same, the 

Property, property and funds of such academy, shall 

vested, be vested in the trustees so nominated, for 

the use and benefit of the academy, [l R. S. 462, § 40.] 

§ 5. The regents of the university shall, by general 

Regents rules and regulations to be established by 

to nicikG 

rules, etc. them fi'om time to time, prescribe the requi- 
sites and conditions for the incorporation by them of 
any college, university, academy or other institution 
of learning, pursuant to the power vested in the said 
regents by the act entitled " An act relative to the 
University," passed April 5, 1813, and by the Re- 
vised Statutes of this state. The said regents are 



INCORPORATION OF COLLEGES, ETC. 11 

Power to hereby empowered at any time by an instru- 

mcorpor- . 

ate under ment Under their common seal, which shall 

the act of . ^ 

1853. be recorded in the office of the secretary of 
the board of regents* to incorporate any university 
or college, or any academy, or other institution of 
learning under such name, with such number of 
trustees or other managers, and with such powers 
and privileges and subject to such limitations and 
restrictions, in all respects as may be prescribed by 
law, or as the said regents shall deem proper in con- 
formity thereto ; and every institution so incorpo- 
rated, in addition to the powers which may be vested 
in them as aforesaid, shall have the general powers 
of a corporation under the Revised Statutes of this 
State. [Zaios of 1853, ch. 184, § 1.] 

§ 6. Any citizens not less than ten in number, of 
Medical col- whom a majority shall be inhabitants of this 

leges, how . n -i 

incorpo'd. State, wno may desire to lound or endow a 
medical or surgical college or school within this state, 
may make, sign and acknowledge, before some officer 
.authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, a 
certificate in writing, in which shall be stated the 
corporate name of the proposed institution, the names 
of the persons proposed for first trustees, the plan 
on which and the funds with which it is intended to 
found and provide for said institution, and the name 
of the town or city in which it is proposed to locate 
the same ; and shall file such certificate in the office 
of the secretary of the board of regents,* and trans- 

* Laws of 1855, ch. 471, § 1. 



12 LAWS RELATIVE TO 

mit a duplicate thereof to the presiding officer of the 
regents of the university of the state of New York. 
[Ibid. § 6.] 

§ 7. If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the re- 
ibid. gents of the university that the sum of fifty 

thousand dollars has been subscribed in good faith 
for the endowment of such institution by the valid 
subscription of responsible parties, and that at least 
two-thirds of that sum has been actually paid in or se- 
cured in such manner as the regents may approve, to 
be invested in buildings and site for college, museum, 
library, apparatus and other needful appurtenances of 
a medical college, or in bonds and mortgages on un- 
incumbered real estate or stocks of the United States 
or of this state, they shall, by act under their seal? 
grant a charter pursuant to the provisions of this act 
for the incorporation of such college (naming therein, 
as first trustees, the persons specified in said certifi- 
cate) for a term of five years, with a condition or 
proviso therein, that if, within the said term of five 
years, the trustees of said college shall present to the 
regents satisfactory evidence that there has been paid 
in and invested, as above prescribed, the whole of said 
sum of fifty thousand dollars, the charter thereof 
shall be made perpetual. Upon the fulfillment of x 
said condition, or upon the payment in the first in- 
stance of the said sum of fifty thousand dollars, the 
said regents shall grant said college a perpetual char- 
ter. [Ibid. § v.] 

§ 8. Such college may hold and possess real and 



INCOEPORATION OF COLLEGES, ETC. 13 

Amount of Personal property to the amount of two hun- 
thaf may <^red thousand dollars ; but the funds or 
be held, property thereof shall not be used for any 
other purpose than for the legitimate business of such 
institution, in the promotion of medical and surgical 
science, and instruction in all departments of learning 
connected therewith. \^Ihid. § 8.] 

§ 9. Such college shall be subject to the general 
Subject to provisions of the Revised Statutes, so far as 

visitation -, > -, 

of regents, the Same are applicable, regulating the prac- 
tice of physic and surgery within this state. It shall 
be subject to the visitation of the regents of the uni- 
versity, and shall make an annual report to them, on 
oath, of the condition of said college and the various 
matters required by law to be reported by other col- 
leges and academies, and of the investment of the 
funds of said college ; and if at any time it shall 
appear that the sum required to be paid in has not 
been invested in the manner specified in the seventh 
section of this act, the regents of the university are 
hereby empowered to vacate and annul said charter 
[Ibid. § 9.] 

§ 10. Every institution incorporated under this act 
Subject to shall have and possess all the powers and 
fiabiiities, pi'ivilcgcs, and be subject to the provisions, 
®*^" liabilities and restrictions of the eighteenth 

chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so 
far as the same are applicable and have not been re- 
pealed. The board of trustees, which shall consist 
Trustees, of not Icss than ten nor more than twenty- 
2 



14 LAWS RELATIVE TO 

four persons, shall have power to make all needful 
by-laws and rules for the government and regulation 
of said college, the appointment of professors, in- 
structors, and other officers thereof, the term of office 
and election of trustees, and so forth, not inconsistent 
with this act and the laws of this state. Such by-laws 
may be altered or amended by a vote of two-thirds 
of the members constituting said board, notice being 
given at a previous regular meeting of said board. 
[Ibid § 10.] 

§ 11. The trustees for the time being, of every col- 
Trustees ^^&® incorporated pursuant to this act shall 
dSn-ee°?^ have powcr to grant and confer the degree 
^- ^- of doctor of medicine upon the recommend- 
ation of the board of professors of said college, and 
of at least three curators of the medical profession 
appointed by said trustees. But no person shall re- 
ceive a diploma, conferring such degree, unless he be 
of good moral character and of the age of twenty-one 
years, and shall have received a good English educa- 
tion, and shall have pursued the study of medicine 
and the sciences connected therewith for at least three 
years after the age of sixteen years, and have received 
instruction from some physician and surgeon, fully 
qualified to practice his profession, until he is qualified 
to enter a medical college, and (except in cases here- 
after provided) shall also after that age have attended 
two complete courses of lectures delivered in some 
incorporated medical college. [Ibid. § 11.] 

§ 12. The board of trustees of every such college 



IXCOEPOEATION OF ACADEMIES. 15 

indio'ent shall, iipon payment of matriculation and 
scholars, clemonstrator's fees (which shall not exceed 
the sum of five dollars each), admit to its course of 
instruction, without further charge, any number of 
young persons of the state of 'New York (not exceed- 
ing ten at any one time), of good scholarship and 
moral character, who are in indigent circumstances ; 
the evidence of qualification shall be a certificate 
from the judge of the county in which the applicant 
resides. [Ibid. § 12.] 

§ 13. It shall be lawful for any academy or high 
stock cor- school for literary, scientific, charitable or 
E2w*^°^^' religious purposes, to issue, create and pos- 
formed. gggg g^ capital stock not exceeding fifty thou- 
sand dollars, which stock shall be deemed joersonal 
property and shall be issued in shares of not less than 
ten dollars each to the several persons subscribing for 
and paying in the same : and in the election of 
trustees of any such corporation, each stockholder 
shall be entitled to give one vote upon each share of 
stock actually owned by him at the time of such 
election. [JLaics o/" 1851, ch. 544, § 1 ; 1 Zaws of 
1853, ch. 184, § 4,] 

§ 14. Whenever any such corporation formed for 
Ibid. the purpose of establishing an academy or 

high school shall have erected a building for school 
purposes of the value of two thousand dollars, and 
shall in all other respects comply -with the conditions 
provided by law to authorize the regents to incorpo- 
rate academies, said corporation shall be declared an 



16 LAWS RELATIVE TO 

academy by the regents of the university, and shall 
enjoy all the rights and privileges conferred by law 
on the academies of this state. [Ibid. § 2.] 

§ 15. ISTo academy or institution of learning shall 
Dividends, hereafter pay to its stockholders, shareholders, 
or other persons claiming rights of ownership therein, 
any dividends, or any portion of its earnings or other 
income, from whatever source derived, while there is 
any outstanding indebtedness against the said acad- 
emy or institution. \_Laios of 1859, ch. 426, § 1.] 

§ 16. The said regents may at any time, on suffi- 
Regents clcnt cause shown, and by an instrument un- 

ma}'- alter, . i , i -\ i 

amend or dcr their common seal, to be recoraea as 
charters, aforesaid, alter, amend or repeal the charter 
of any college, university, academy or other institu- 
tion of learning, which may hereafter be incorporated 
by them ; and may, on the petition of any college, 
academy or other institution of learning in this state, 
now existing and subject, or which may hereafter be- 
come subject to their visitation, alter or modify the 
charter, and the rights, powers and privileges of such 
institution, in such manner and on such terms and 
conditions as they may deem proper. [Laws of 1853, 
ch. 184, § 2.] 

§ 1 7. All applications for charters for colleges and 
Charters, academies, and all charters of colleges and 

etc., where _ . ^ , . , /? ^i 

recorded, academies, granted by the regents oi the 
university, and all amendments or alterations of 
the same, shall be recorded in the office of the secre- 
tary of the board of regents, instead of the office of 
the secretary of state. [Laws <9/1855, ch. 471, § 1.] 



ACADEMICAL DEPAETMENTS^ 1*7 

§ 18. The fees for recording applications as to col- 

lesres and academies, and for other services 
Fees. 

mentioned in the second section of the said 

act hereby amended, are hereby abolished. l.Laws 

O/1870, ch. 60, § 2.] 

§ 19. The said regents are also hereby authorized 
Eecord to cause to be transcribed into a book, to be 
by them provided and kept for that pm'pose, 
all applications for charters of colleges or academies, 
all charters thereupon granted, and all amendments 
to the same at present found recorded in book of 
deeds number forty-three, now remaining in the office 
of the secretary of state. [Xa^oso/'1853,ch. 47l,§ 83.] 

§ 20. Coj^ies of and extracts from any and all 
Copies of records, books, papers, documents, files and 
maybe^ead manuscripts in the possession or custody of 
m evidence. ^-^^ regents of the university as such, or as 
trustees of the state library, or otherwise, in their 
official capacity, and duly authenticated under the 
hand of the chancellor or secretary, and under the 
common seal of the said regents, as a true copy of 
such original and of the whole thereof as aforesaid, 
may be used and read in evidence in all courts and 
places in this state, with the same force and effect as 
the originals might be, if produced. [Laios of 1870, 
ch. 60, §1.] 

§ 21. The board of education of evei^ union free 

Academical school district shall severally have power to 

of uSon^^* establish in the same an academical depart- 

«chooi. nient, whenever in their judgment the same 

2* 



18 LAWS EELATIVE TO 

is warranted by the demand for such instruction. 
[Zaics of 1864, ch. 555, title ix. § 13.] 

§ 22. Every academical department, established as 
Under vis- aforesaid, shall be under the visitation of the 

itation of 

regents, regents of the university, and shall be sub- 
ject, in its course of education and matters pertaining 
thereto (but not in reference to the buildings or 
erections in which the same is held), to all the reg- 
ulations made in regard to academies by the said 
regents. In such departments the qualifications for 
the entrance of any pupil shall be as high as those 
established by the said regents for participation in 
the literature fund of any academy of the state under 
their supervision. [Ibid. § 23.] 

§ 23. Whenever a union free school shall be estab- 
Academy, lished under the provisions of this title, and 

how ...... 

merged there shall exist within its district an academy, 

in union . .r.i i-t 

Bchooi. the board oi education, it thereto authorized 
by a vote of the voters of the district, may adopt such 
academy as the academical department of the district, 
with the consent of the trustees of the academy, 
and thereupon the trustees, by a resolution to be at- 
tested by the signatures of the officers of the board, 
and filed in the office of the clerk of the county, 
shall declare their offices vacant, and thereafter the 
said academy shall be the academical department of 
such, union ^^ee school. [IMd. § 24.] 

§ 24. Any union school in this state duly organ- 
Priviieges. izcd according to law, by complying with the 
requirements of the " Eegents of the University," shall 



ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENTS. 19 

be entitled to all the benefits and privileges in the 
academies in this state. [Laics of 1802, ch. 450.] 

§ 25. The founders and benefactors of any school 

Lancaste- established, or to be established for the in- 

pchoois, struction of youth, on the system of Lancas- 

how incor- -r> n ^ f' 

porated. ter or lieJl, or any other system oi instruction 
ajDproved by the board of regents, or as many of such 
founders as shall have contributed more than one half 
of the property collected or appropriated for the use 
of such school, may make to the regents of the uni- 
versity, an application in writing, under their hands, 
requesting that such school may be incorporated, 
nominating the first trustees, and specifying the name 
by which the corporation is to be called. [1 R. S. 
464, § 5'7.] 

S 26. In case the reo;ents shall conceive a com- 
Ibid. pliance with such request, w^ill be conducive 

to the difiusion of useful knowledge, they shall, by 
an instrument under their common seal, declare their 
approbation of the incorporation of the trustees of 
the school, by the name specified in such application. 
[1 R. S. 465, § 58.] 

§ 27. The request in writing, and instrument of 
rbid. approbation, shall be recorded in the ofiice 

of the clerk of the county, in which such school shall 
be established. [Ibid. § 59.] 

§ 28. Immediately after recording the'^'same, the. 
ibid. property and funds of such school shall be 

vested in the trustees so nominated, for the use and 
benefit of the school. [Ibid. § 60.] 



20 ^ LAWS EELATIVE TO 

§ 29. Every school incorporated under the pro- 
Subject to visions of this article shall be subject to the 
o?regent^. Control and visitation of the regents ; and 
shall make such returns and reports, in relation to 
the state and disposition of its property and funds, 
the nuniber and ages of its pupils, and its system of 
instruction and discipline, as the regents shall from 
time to time require. [1 R. S. 466, § 66.] 

§ 30. The "Act for the incorporation of benevo- 
lent, charitable, scientific and missionary pur- 
General ' ' . . 
act of incor- poses," passcd April twelfth, eighteen hun- 
dred and forty-eight, shall be deemed to 
authorize the incorporation of any society for the 
purpose of establishing and maintaining any educa- 
tional institution. [Zaws o/ 1870, ch. 51, § 1.] 

§ 31. Any university or college incorporated under 
„ the said act, or under this act, may take and 

Amount of ^ . 

endow- hold by gift, grant, devise or bequest, prop- 
erty or endowment not exceeding in value 
or amount one million of dollars, subject however to 
the restriction upon devises and bequests contained 
in an act entitled " An act relating to wills," j)assed 
April thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty. [^Ibid. 

§ 3.] _ 

§ 32. This act shall apply as well to societies here- 

Pormcr or- tofore Organized under the aforesaid act, as 
ganiza i ns. ^^ ^|-^Qgg ^yhicli shall be hereafter organized. 
[Ibid. § 5.] 



TETJSTEES OF COLLEGES. 21 



CHAPTER III. 

OP THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF TRUSTEES OF COL- 
LEGES AND ACADEMIES. 

1. Of Colleges. 

Sec. 1. The trustees of every college to which a 
Corpora- charter shall be granted by the state, shall be 
tion. ^ corporation, [l R. S. 460, § 31.] 

§ 2. The trustees shall meet upon their own ad- 
Meetings, journment, and as aften as they shall be 
summoned by their chairman, or in his absence, by 
the senior trustee, upon the request in writing of any 
other three trustees, \lhid. § 32.] 

§ 3. ^oticeof the time and place of every such meet- 
Notices ^^§' shall be given in a newspaper printed in 
thereof. ^^ county where such college is situate, at 
least six days before the meeting ; and every trustee 
resident in such county, shall be previously notified 
in writing, of the time and place of such meeting. 
\IUd. § 33.] 

§ 4. Seniority among the trustees shall be deter- 
Seniority. mined according to the order in which they 
are named in the charter of the college ; and after all 
the first trustees shall become extinct, according to the 
priority of their election. [Ibid. § 34.] 

§ 5. The trustees shall not exceed twenty-four, nor 
Number be less than ten, in number ; and a majority 
rum. of the whole number, shall be a quorum for 
the transaction of business. \Ihid. § 35.] 



22 LAWS EELATIVE TO 

§ 6. The trustees of every such college, besides the 
Powers of general powers and privileges of a corpora- 
trustees. ^^Qn^ shall have power ; 

1 . To elect by ballot their chairman annually : 

2. Upon the death, removal out of this state, or 
other vacancy in the office of any trustee, to elect 
another in his place by a majority of the votes of the 
trustees present : 

3. To declare vacant the seat of any trustee, who 
shall absent himself, from five successive meetings of 
the board : 

4. To take and hold, by gift, grant or devise, any 
real or personal property, the yearly income or reve- 
nue of which, shall not exceed the value of twenty-five 
thousand dollars : 

5. To sell, mortgage, let and otherwise use and 
dispose of such property, in such manner, as they shall 
deem most conducive to the interest of the college : 

6. To direct and prescribe the course of study and 
discij^line, to be observed in the college : 

7. To appoint a president of the college, who shall 
hold his ofiice during good behavior : 

8. To appoint such professors, trustees and other 
ofiicers, as they shall deem necessary, who, unless 
employed under a special contract, shall hold their 
offices during the pleasure of the trustees : 

9. To remove or suspend from office the president 
and every professor, tutor, or other officer employed 
under a special contract, upon a complaint in writing 
by any member of the board of trustees, stating the 



TRUSTEES OF ACADE]MIES. 23 

misbehavior in office, incapacity or immoral conduct, 
of the person sought to be removed, and upon 
examination and due proof of the truth of such 
complaint ; and to appoint any other person in place 
of the president or other officer, thus removed or sus- 
pended : 

10. To grant such literary honors as are usually 
granted by any university, college, or seminary of 
learning in the United States ; and in testimony 
thereof to give suitable diplomas, under their seal 
and the signature of such officers of the college, as 
they shall deem expedient : 

11. To ascertain and fix the salaries of the presi- 
dent, professors and other officers of the college : 

12. To make all ordinances and by-laws necessary 
and proper to carry into effect the preceding powers. 
[Ihicl § 36.] 

§ v. Every diploma granted by such trustees, shall 
Effect of entitle the possessor to all the immunities 
diplomas, ^j^j^,]^ "j^^y usage or statute are allowed to pos- 
sessors of similar diplomas granted by any university, 
college or seminary of learning in the United States. 
[1 R. S. 461, § 37.] 

2. Of Acadeynies, 

§ 8. The trustees of every such academy shall be a 
Corpora- Corporation, by the name expressed in the 
tion. instrument of approbation : they shall not be 
more than twenty-four, nor less than twelve, in num- 
ber; and seven trustees of any academy shall be a 



24 LAWS RELATIVE TO 

quorum for the transaction of business. [1 R. S. 462, 
§ 41 ; Laws of 1835, ch. 34, § 3.] 

§ 9. Such trustees, besides the general powers and 
Powers of privileges of a cor]3oration, shall have au- 
trustees. thority ; 

1. To adjourn from time to time, as they may deem 
expedient : 

2. To elect by ballot their president, who shall 
hold his office for one year, and until another be 
chosen in his place : 

3. Upon the death, resignation, refusal to act, re- 
moval out of this state, or other vacancy in the office 
of any trustee, to elect another in his j)lace, by a ma- 
jority of the votes of the trustees present : 

4. To take and hold by gift, grant or devise, any 
real or personal property, the clear yearly income or 
revenue of which shall not exceed the value of four 
thousand dollars : 

5. To sell, mortgage, let, or otherwise use and dis- 
pose of, such property, for the benefit of the academy : 

6. To direct and prescribe the course of discipline 
and study in the academy : 

T. To appoint a treasurer, clerk, principal, masters, 
tutors, and other necessary officers of the academy ; 
who unless employed under a special contract, shall 
hold their offices during the pleasure of the trustees : 

8. To ascertain and fix the salaries of all the offi- 
cers of the academy : 

9. To remove or suspend from office any officer 
employed under a special contract, upon a complaint 
in writing by a trustee, of the misbehavior in office, 



TRUSTEES OF ACADEMIES. 25 

incapacity or immoral conduct, of such officer, and 
upon examination and due proof of the truth of snch 
complaint, and to appoint another person in the 
place of the officer so removed or suspended : 

10. To make all ordinances and by-laws necessary 
and proper to carry into effect the preceding powers. 
[1 R. S. 462, § 42.] 

§ 10. The trustees shall meet upon their own ad- 
Meetings, journment and as often as they shall be sum- 
moned by their president, or the senior trustee actu- 
ally exercising his office, and residing within three 
miles of such academy, upon the request in writing 
of any other three trustees. [1 R. S. 463, § 43.] 

§ 11. Every meeting so requested, shall be held at 

Time and ^uch time and place, as the president or senior 

place. trustee shall appoint, not less than five, nor 

more than twelve, days from the time of the request. 

\IUa. % 44.] 

§ 12. Previous notice in writing of every such 
j^Q^j(,Q meeting, shall be affixed on the door of the 
thereof, academy, within two days after its appoint- 
ment; and at every meeting, adjourned or special, the 
president, or senior trustee present, shall preside. 
\lUd. § 45.] 

§ 13. The seniority of the trustees shall always be 
Seniority, determined according to the order of their 
nomination in the written application to the regents ; 
and after all the first trustees shall become extinct, 
according to the priority of their election. \I'bid, 
§ 46.] 

3 



26 LAWS EELATIVE TO 

§ 14. If a trustee shall refuse or neglect to attend 
Non-at- any two successive leo-al meetm2:s of the 

tendance o o 

effect of.' trustees, after having been personally notified 
to attend, and if no satisfactory cause of his non-at- 
tendance be shown, the trustees may declare his office 
vacant. [Ibid. § 47.] 

§ 15. If any trustee of an academy shall, for one 
Ibid. year, refuse or neglect to attend the legal 

meetings of the board of trustees of which he is a 
member, such non-attendance shall be deemed a resig- 
nation of the office of such trustee. \_Ijatos of 1835, 
ch. 123, § 2.] 

§ 16. Where the number of trustees of any acad- 
Number, emy shall exceed twelve, the trustees thereof, 

how re- " . . ^ .. 

duced. at their annual meeting, may reduce the 
number of the original board of trustees to any num- 
ber, not less than twelve, by abolishing the offices of 
those, who may omit to attend such meeting, and shall 
have omitted to attend two other legal meetings after 
notice. [1 R. S. 463, § 48.] 

§ 17. Where the number of trustees of any acad- 
Faiiure ^^7 ^hall exceed twelve, and a vacancy shall 
vaSncy l^^ppsn ill the office of any such trustees, and 
effect of. ^|-^Q vacancy shall not be filled by the election 
of another trustee within six months after the hap- 
pening of such vacancy, the office of the trustee so 
becoming vacant shall be abolished. [^Laios of 1835, 
ch. 123, § 3.] 

§ 18. The trustees of any academy possessing a 
capital stock pursuant to the act chapter five hun- 



ETC. 2 7 

Stock cor- dred and forty-four of the laws of eighteen 
special ' hundred and fifty-one, may by their by-laws 

powers of n -, • 

trustees, prescribe the mode and manner of electing 
trustees of the said academy, and may make all neces- 
sary rules and regulations relative to such election ; 
and the said trustees may, if they so determine, be 
divided into three classes as nearly equal as may be, 
who shall serve respectively one, two and three years, 
such terms of service to be determined by drawing 
therefor under the direction of the said trustees ; and 
the trustees thereafter elected shall serve three years. 
The trustees may fill all vacancies occurring in their 
number by death, resignation, removal from the state, 
or otherwise ; and any election of trustees by any 
academy, under said law, heretofore held, is hereby 
affirmed and made valid, provided, that this act shall 
not aifect any action heretofore brought arising out 
of any such election. [Xaios of 1853, ch. 184, § 3.] 

3. Of Lancasterian and Select Schools. 
§ 19. The trustees of such school shall be a corpo- 
Corpora- I'^tion, by the name expressed in the instru- 
tion. nient of approbation. [1 E. S. 465, § 61.] 

§ 20. The trustees of every such school, (besides the 
Powers^of gen^i^^l powers and privileges of a coipora- 
trustees. ^^Q^i^ shall have authority, 

1. To elect, by ballot, their president^ treasurer and 
clerk, annually: 

2. Upon the death, resignation, refusal to act, re 
moval out of the state, or other vacancy in the office 
of any trustee, to elect another in his place : 



28 LAWS RELATIVE TO 

3. To appoint a master, assistants and other neces- 
sary officers of the school : 

4. To remove or suspend any of them at pleasure, 
and to fix their respective salaries or compensation : 

5. To appoint the times and places of their own 
regular meetings, and to adjourn from time to 
time : 

6. To take and hold any real or personal property, 
the clear yearly income or revenue of which, shall not 
exceed the value of four thousand dollars : 

7. To sell, mortgage, let, and otherwise use and 
dispose of, such property for the benefit of the 
school : 

8. To make all ordinances and by-laws, necessary 
and proper, to carry into effect the preceding powers. 
[Ibid § 62.] 

8 21. If anv trustee shall refuse or neojlect to at- 

Non-atten- tend the stated meetings of the trustees, for 

dance. £^^-^^, meetings successively, the office of such 

trustee may be declared vacant by the trustees, [l 

R. S. 466, § 63.] 

§ 22. The trustees of one or more common-school- 
How made districts in any city, town or villaoje of this 

a district ^ . ^ . -, t 

school. State, within which any incorporated Lancas- 
terian, or other select school is, or shall be established, 
with the consent of a majority of the taxable inhabit- 
ants of such district or districts, expressed at a meet- 
ing called for that purpose, may agree with the 
trustees of such incorporated school, to make the 
same a district school. \_Ibid. § 64.] 



ANNUAL EEPOETS OF COLLEGES, ETC. 29 

§ 23. Such incorporated school shall, during the 
Ibid. continuance of such agreement, become a 

district school, and be entitled to all the benefits and 
privileges, and subject to all the regulations of other 
district schools. [Jbicl. § 65.] 

§ 24. Every school incorporated under the pro- 
Suhject to visions of this article, shall be subject to the 

visitation -, . . . 

of regents, control and visitation of the re2:ents; and 
shall make such returns and reports, in relation to the 
state and disposition of its property and funds, the 
number and ages of its pupils, and its system of in- 
struction and discipline, as the regents shall from 
time to time require. [^Ibid. § 66.] 

4. General Provisions AppUcaUe to Colleges and 

Academies. 

§ 25. No religious qualification or test shall be 

No reiig- required from any trustee, president, prin- 

lous test, (jjp^i^ Q^ other ofiicer of any incorporated 

college or academy, or as a condition for admission 

to any privilege in the same. [1 R. S. 463, § 49.] 

§ 26. No professor or tutor of any incorporated 
No prof, or collco^e or academy, shall be a trustee of 

tutor to be ,,, t r t^ c^ o i 

a trustee, sucli college or academy. [1 K. b. 464, § 50.J 

§ 27. No president of any such college, or princi- 

When not pal of any such academy, who shall be a 

to vote, trustee, shall have a vote in any case relat- 
ing to his own salary or emoluments. [Tbid. § 51. J 

3* 



30 LAWS EELATIYE TO 



CHAPTER IV. 

ANNUAL EEPOETS OF COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES AND 
THE DISTUIBUTION OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. 

Sec. 1. Every college and academy that shall be- 
Reportsto ^ome Subject to the visitation of the regents, 
regents, g^^ll make such returns and reports to the 
regents, in relation to the state and disposition of its 
property and funds, the number and ages of its pu- 
pils, and its system of instruction and discipline, as 
the regents shall from time to time require. [1 R. S. 
464, § 55.1 

§ 2. The regents shall prescribe the forms of all 
Regents to returns, which they shall require from col- 

T)rGScril)G 

forms. leges and other seminaries of learning, sub- 
ject to their visitation, and may direct such forms 
and such instructions, as from time to time, shall be 
given by them as visitors, to be printed by the state 
printer. [1 R. S. 459, § 29.] 

§ 3. Every academy or institution of learning sub- 
Academic J®^^ ^^ ^^® visitation of the regents, is hereby 
year. required, as early as possible after the passage 
of this act, at a legal meeting of the trustees, to de- 
clare on its minutes the termination of its academic 
year, and which, in all cases, shall be some period be- 
tween the twentieth day of June and the fifteenth 
day of September, in each year. [Laws of 1856, 
oil. 54.] 



ANNUAL EEPORTS OF COLLEGES, ETC. 31 

§ 4. Every academy shall make ,up its annual re- 
Report, Po^'^ ^^^ ^^^^ academic year, and shall transmit 
b?trans- ^^^ Same to the regents on or before the first 
mitted. ^^j Qf Kovember in each year, stating in 
the same the termination of their academic year. 
[Laws of 1855, ch. 50, § 2.] 

§ 5. Every such return shall be attested by. the oath 
Contents either of the principal instructor in the sem- 
of reports, in^ry by which it shall be made, or of one 
of the trustees thereof, and shall contain : 

1. The names and ages of all the pupils instructed 
in such seminary, during the preceding year, and the 
time that each was so instructed. 

2. A particular statement of the studies pursued 
by each pupil, at the commencement of his instruction, 
and of his subsequent studies, until the date of the 
report, together with the books such student shall 
have studied in whole or in part, and if in part, what 
portion. 

3. An account or estimate of the cost or value of 
the library, philosophical and chemical apparatus, 
and mathematical and other scientific instruments, 
belonging to the seminary. 

4. The names of the instructors employed in the 
seminary, and the compensation paid to each. 

5. An account of the funds, income, debts and in- 
cumbrances of the seminary, and of the application 
therein, of the moneys last received from the regents. 
[1 R. S. 459, § 27.] 



32 LAWS RELATIVE TO 

§ 6. There shall be paid annually, by the treasurer, 
Apportion- ^^^ ^^^ Warrant of the comptroller, out of 
Stemtm-e ^^^ revenues derived from the literature 
fund. fund, to the several academies under the su- 
pervision of the regents of the university, the sum 
of twelve thousand dollars, and the further sum of 
twenty-eight thousand dollars from the income of the 
United States deposit fund, being in all forty thou- 
sand dollars, according to an apportionment to be 
made by the regents among the said academies, in 
proportion to the number of pupils in each who shall 
have pursued the requisite studies to enable them to 
share in said distribution. \^Laws of 1851, ch. 536, § 1.] 
§ 7. Every such distribution shall be made in pro- 
How dis- poi'tion to the number of pupils in each semi- 
tribated. ^ary, who, for four months during the pre- 
ceding year, shall have pursued therein, classical 
studies, or the higher branches of English education, 
or both. [1 R. S. 458, § 24.] 

g 8. No pupil in any such seminary, shall be deemed 
studies, to have pursued classical studies, unless he 
shall have advanced at least, so far as to have read in 
Latin, the first book of ^neid ; nor to have pursued 
the higher branches of English education, unless he 
shall have advanced beyond such knowledge of arith- 
metic, (including vulgar and decimal fractions,) and 
of English grammar and geography, as is usually 
obtained in common schools, [l R. S. 459, § 25.] 

§ 9. No academy shall hereafter be allowed to par- 
Conditions, ticipate in the annual distribution of the 



ANNUAL EEPORTS OF ACADEMIES. 33 

literature fund, until the regents of the university 
shall be satisfied that a proper building has been 
erected and finished to furnish suitable and necessary- 
accommodation for such school, and that such academy- 
is furnished with a suitable library- and philosophical 
apparatus, and that a proper preceptor has been and 
is employed for the instruction of the pupils at such 
academy : and further, that the regents shall, on be- 
ing satisfied that such building, library and apparatus 
are sufficient for the pm-poses intended, and that the 
whole is of the value at least of twenty-five hundred 
dollars, permit such academy or school to place itself 
under the visitation of the regents, and thereafter to 
share in the distribution of the moneys above men- 
tioned, or any- other of the literature fund in the 
manner now provided by law. The regents of the 
incorpora- university may also admit to such distribu- 
may be°ad^ tion, and to any other of the literature fund, 
distribu° ^^J iiicorporated school, or school founded 
tion. ^j^^ governed by any literary corporation 

other than theological or medical, in which the usual 
academic studies are j)ui'sued, and which shall have 
been in like manner subjected to their visitation, and 
would in all other respects, were it incorporated as an 
academy, be entitled to such distribution. [^Zaws of 
1838, ch. 237, § 8.] 

§ 1 0. It shall be the duty of the regents of the uni- 

Certainaca- versity to require of every academy receiv- 

fnnruct*^ ing a distributive share of public money 

school'^ under the preceding section equal to seven 

teachers, hundred dollars per annum to establish and 



84 LAWS EELATIVE TO 

maintain in such academy a department for the in- 
struction of common school teachers, under the 
direction of the said regents, as a condition of receiv- 
ing the distributive share of every such academy.* 
\IUd. § 9.] 

§ 11. The regents of the university shall annually 
Schedule of deliver to the comptroller a schedule of the 
tioVto be distribution of the income of the said litera- 
te comp- ture fund, designating the several institu- 
troUer. tions entitled to a participation, and the 
amount awarded to each ; which schedule shall be de- 
livered immediately after each annual distribution, and 
shall be authenticated by the. signature of the chancel- 
lor and secretary of the said regents of the university, 
and their corporate seal. \Laws of 1832, ch. 8, § 3.] 
§ 12. The comptroller shall draw his warrant on 
Warrant, the treasurer in favor of each institution, for 
the sum so awarded to it, and shall direct the manner 
in which the same shall be receipted and drawn from 
the treasury. \I'bid. § 4.] 

§ 13. All moneys received by any academy or other 
Moneys", institution, in the annual distribution of the 

how ap- . . ^ . 

plied. literature and United States deposit funds, 
shall be applied exclusively, by the trustees of such 
academy or institution, towards paying the salaries 
of teachers. \LaiGS of 1859, ch. 426, § 1.] 

§ 14. There shall be paid by the treasurer, on the 

Appropria- Warrant of the comptroller, out of the in- 

Jg^^^"^ come of the literature fund, to the regents 

books, etc. of the university, three thousand dollars 

* See also post, ch. V, § 3. 



ANNUAL EEPOETS OF ACADEMIES. 35 

annually, to be assigned by them to such academies, 
subject to their visitation, for the purchase of text 
books, maps and globes, or philosophical or chemical 
apparatus, as may apply for a part of the money for 
that purpose, on the terms prescribed in the second 
section of chapter one hundred and forty of the laws 
of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. [JjCcws 
of 1851, ch. 536, § 3.] 

§ 15. Such sum to any academy shall not exceed 
Amount, two hundred and fifty dollars in any one 
year, and no part shall be actually paid over, unless 
the trustees of the academy to which it is to be ap- 
propriated shall raise and apply an equal sum of 
money to the same object. [Z/aios of 1834, ch. 140, 
§ 2.] 

§ 16. The regents of the university are hereby au- 
Power of thorized and empowered to give such relief 
to?rant *^ academies in relation to the distribution 
relief. q£ ^^iq public funds as has hitherto been 
rendered by the legislature, whenever in their judg- 
ment such relief is equitable and just, or rendered 
necessary by error in their reports or by error in 
distribution of said funds. [Zcavs of 1857, ch. 527, 

§4.] 

§ 17. The regents shall annually, within ten days 
ABunai after the opening of the session in each year, 
regents, report to the legislature an abstract of all 
the returns made to them, embracing a general view 
of the particulars contained therein, and shall also 
state in their report, the distribution made by them, 



36 LAWS RELATIVE TO 

during the preceding year, of the income of the lit- 
erature fund, the names of the seminaries sharing in 
such distribution, and the amount received by each.* 
[1 R. S. 459, § 28 ; Laws of 1855, ch. 50, § 3.] 

* See also ante, ch. I, § 18. 



t;n"steuction of teachees. 31 



CHAPTER Y. 

STATE NOEMAL SCHOOL, AND INSTETJCTIOIS' OF COM- 
MON SCHOOL TEACHEES IN ACADEMIES. 

Sec. 1. The said school (State IlsTormal School) shall 
Sapervis- ^® Under the supervision, management and 
manage- government of the superintendent of public 
ment. instruction and the regents of the university. 
The said superintendent and regents shall from time 
to time, make all needful rules and regulations, to fix 
the number and compensation of teachers and others 
to be employed therein ; to prescribe the preliminary 
examination, and the terms and conditions on which 
pupils shall be received and instructed therein ; the 
number of pupils from the respective counties, con- 
forming as nearly as may be to the ratio of pop- 
ulation, and to provide in all things for the good 
government and management of the said school. 
They shall appoint a board consisting of five persons, 
of whom the said superintendent shall be one, who 
Executive shall constitute an executive committee for 
committee ^^q care, management and government of 
said school, under the rules and regulations pre- 
scribed as aforesaid, whose duty it shall be from 
time to time to make full and detailed reports to the 
said superintendent and regents, and among other 
things to recommend the rules and regulations which 
they deem necessary and proper for the said school. 

[Laws of 1848, ch. 318, § 3 ; 1854, ch. 97, § 1.] 
4 



38 LAWS EELATIVE TO 

§ 2. The superintendent and regents shall annually 
Annual re- transmit to the legislature a full account of 
^°^*' their proceedings and of the expenditures of 

money under this act, together with a detailed re23ort 
of the progress, condition and prospects of the school. 
[Zaios of 1848, ch. 318, § 4.] 

§ 3. The treasurer shall pay yearly on the warrant 
Appropria- ^^ ^^® Comptroller, out of the income of the 
etrucSon^" United States deposit or literature funds, 
Bchooi^°^ not otherwise appropriated, the sum of 
teachers, giajiteen thousand dollars for instruction in 
academies, in the science of common school teaching 
under a course of study prescribed by the regents of 
the university, the same to be paid as follows, that is 
to say : to the trustees of all academies selected for 
that purpose by the regents of the university in this 
state, the sum of ten dollars for each scholar, not to 
exceed twenty scholars to each academy, who shall 
have been in such academy instructed under a course 
prescribed by the regents of the university during 
at least one-third of the academic year in the science 
of common school teaching, and a sum not exceeding 
three thousand dollars, portion of said eighteen thou- 
sand dollars, for instruction in such academies in phy- 
siology and the laws of health, and such other special 
subjects as the regents of the university shall deem 
necessary to be taught on a uniform system in all the 
academies so selected as aforesaid, by a teacher or 
teachers to be appointed by said regents ; the 
same to be paid to such teacher or teacliers on the 



IlSrSTRUCTION OF TEACHERS. 39 

certificate of the said regents that the said uniform 
course of instruction has been given by such teacher 
or teachers under their directions in conformity to 
the provisions of this act* [Laws of 1864, ch. 556 ; 
1855, ch. 410. 

§ 4. The comptroller shall not draw his warrant for 
Certificate any amount as above provided, until the 
troiier. trustees of such academies shall have fur- 
nished to the regents of the university satisfactory 
evidence that the course prescribed, as aforesaid, has 
been thoroughly pursued by a class previously desig- 
nated, and instructed as common school teachers, and 
who the said trustees believe intend in good faith to 
follow the said occupation ; and said trustees shall 
have obtained a certificate thereof, and presented the 
same to the comptroller. [Lavjs of 1855, ch. 410, 

§^0 ' 

* See a.so ante, ch. IV, § 10. 



40 LAWS EELATIVE TO 



CHAPTER VI. 

STATE LIBRAET AND STATE CABINET OF NATURAL 

HISTORY. 

Sec. 1. The regents of the university of the state 
Tnxstees. of New York, are hereby constituted and 
shall continue the trustees of the state library. [Zatos 
of 1844, ch. 255, § 1.] 

§ 2. The trustees hereby appointed,shall have power, 
Librarians, from time to time, to appoint a librarian to 
pointed. Superintend and take care of the said library ; 
and to prescribe such rules and regulations for the 
government of the library, as they shall think proper ; 
and to remove the librarian at any time when they 
shall deem it expedient ; but for the purpose of re- 
moving or appointing a librarian, twelve of the said 
trustees shall be required to form a quorum. [Ibid. 

§3-] 

§ 3. The assistant librarian, and messenger shall be 

"^^brarlan appointed by the trustees of the library. 
andmes- \ Zaios of 1848, ch. 262, 8 2.1 

senger. l ./ ' j o j 

§ 4. The state library shall be kept open, every day 

When to ^^ ^^^® J^^^\ Sundays excepted, during such 

be open, hours in each day as the trustees of the 

said library may direct.* [I^aws of 1844, ch. 255, 

§5.] 

* By a concurrent resolution of the senate and assembly, passed April 
9, 1856, the trustees of the state library are authorized to close the said 



STATE LIBRARY AND CABIJSTET. 41 

§ 5. The librarian shall be constant in his personal 
Duties of attendance upon the library, during the hours 
librarian. ^^ shall be directed to be kept open, and 
shall perform such other duties as may be imposed 
by law or by the rules and regulations which may be 
prescribed by the said trustees. \Ihid. § 6.] 

§ 6. The acting trustees will from time to time, 

Trustees give directions to the librarian in relation to 

to D-ive 

directions, the proper and safe keeping of the books, 
maps, charts and other property belonging to the 
said library, and may by way of amercement for 
Amerce- every violation or neglect of duty, suspend 
SeWecr ^^ deduct from his salary or emolument, any 
of duty. pg,^|. thereof not exceeding half of it in any 
one year. [Laws of 1840, ch. 381, § 3,] 

§ 1. The trustees of the state library may from 

Duplicates time to time, sell or exchange duplicate or 

S or ex- i^P^^f^^t books belonging to the library, 

changed. ^^^ neccssary for the use thereof. [^Laics 

of 1845, ch. 85, § 3.] 

§ 8. It shall be the duty of the trustees of the state 
Annual re- library annually to report to the legislature, 
P°^^* the manner in which the moneys by them 

received during the year preceding have been ex- 
pended, together with a true and perfect catalogue 
of all the books, maps and charts which have been 
added to the library since the date of the last preced- 

library for the period of fifteen days in each year, to wit : from the fifth 
to the twentieth of August, for the purpose of cleaning and dusting the 
books of the said library, and for making such internal arrangements, aa 
the trustees may think proper. 

4* 



42 LAWS RELATIYE TO 

ing annual report, and whether any, and if so, what 
books, maps and charts have been lost ; and also at 
the end of every five years, to report in like manner 
a full and perfect catalogue of all the books, maps 
and charts then remaining in the library. [^Lmcs of 
1844, ch. 255, § 7.] 

§ 9. It shall be the duty of the trustees to pro- 
Members of vide, in their regulations, that any member 
may^\^akr ^^ 't-he Senate or assembly, during the session 
books. Qj.' ^^Q legislature, or of the senate only, shall 
be permitted, under proper restrictions, forfeitures and 
penalties, to take to his boarding-house, or private 
room, any book belonging to the library, except such 
books, as the trustees shall determine are necessary 
always to be kept in the library, as books of refer- 
ence ; but no member of the legislature shall be per- 
mitted to take or detain from the library, more than 
two volumes at any one time. [1 R. S. 216, § 6.] 

§ 10. Before the president of the senate, or the 
Members speaker of the assembly, shall grant to any 

to return ^ . n ^ • n ■, • 

books. member a certmcate oi the time oi his at- 
tendance, he shall be satisfied that such member has 
returned all books taken out of the library by him, 
and has settled all accounts for fines, for injuring such 
books, or otherwise. \Jbid. § 7.] 

§ 11. It shall also be the duty of the trustees to 
Limitation, provide in their regulations, that no book, 
map, or other publication, shall be at any time taken 
out of the library by any other person than a member 
of the legislature, for any purpose whatever. [Ibid. 
§8.] 



STATE LIBRARY AND CABINET. 43 

§ 12. The heads of the several departments, and 
Heads of the trustees of the state library shall have 

departm'ts ^ „ 

and triis- the Same right to take books from the library 

tees may , . -. i i 

take books as IS noTV enjoyed by the members ol the leg- 
islature. [Zaios of 1845, ch. 85, § 1.] 

§ 13. The judges of the court of appeals and the 

Judo-es and jiistices of the Supreme court, shall be al- 
may take lo^^^d to take books from the library under 
books. ^j^g same regulations as the members of the 

legislature. [Zmos of 1848, ch. 262, § 3.] 

§ 14. Of the copies of each volume of the reports 

Copies of ^^ ^^^ court of ap23eals delivered to the 

aopeaSs^' Secretary of state, he shall deposit three 

b?depos- copies in the state library. \Laws of 1847, 

itedin. (.]^^ 280, § 74.] 

§ 15. The regents of the university are hereby au- 

state cabi- thorized and directed to make suitable pro- 
urai^his^*' visions for the safe keeping of the cabinets 
tory. q£ natural history now deposited in the old 

state hall, and to employ a person to take charge of 

the same. [Xaios of 1845, ch. 179, § 1.] 

§ 16. The hall for the state cabinet of natural his- 

Reo-ents ^^^^Tj ^'^<^ ^^ agricultural museum, is placed 
tbe cSto- under the joint care and custody of the re- 
dians of. gg^^s of the university and the executive 

committee of the state agricultural society. \Laxos 

of 1863, ch. 135.]* 

* For acts relating to duplicate specimens in the state cabinet, see 
Laws of 1865, cb. 697 ; 1S68, cb. 179 ; 1869, cb. 774. 



44 LAWS EELATIVE TO 



§ 17. The State Cabinet of Natural History is hereby established, as a 
Statp museum of scientific and practical geology and general nat- 

Museum of ural history, at the capital of the State, under the care and 
HfstOTv custody of the Kegents of the University, to be known here- 
after as "The New York State Museum of Natural History." 
[Laws O/1870, ch. 557, § 1.] 

§ 18. The museum shall be organized in accordance with the plan re- 
Organiza- commended to the Legislature by the Board of Eegents, in 
tion. their report of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the pres- 

ent curator shall act as director of the museum, and shall supervise and 
direct all its scientific and practical operations, and he shall appoint such 
assistants or curators of departments as may be required for the accom- 
plishment of said plan, with the concurrence of the chancellor of the 
board of Kegents, or the committee of the same having charge of the 
museum, [Ibid., § 2.] 

§ 19. It shall be the duty of the director of the museum and the chan- 
pij-ee cellor of the board of Eegents to orga-nize a plan and make 

scientific ^\^q necessary arrangements to establish an annual course of 
free scientific lectures in connection with the museum, as 
soon as practicable, and within two years from the passage of this act. 
[Ibid., § 3.] 

§ 20. For the salary of the director, as established in the appropriation 
bill of eighteen hundred and seventy, for three assistants as 
officers? ^^^ employed by him, and for the increase and preservation 
of the collection, the sum of ten thousand dollars annually 
shall be and is hereby appropriated, and all expenditures for compensa- 
tion of assistants, or for the increase and preservation of the collections, 
shall be made by the director, with the approval of the chancellor of the 
board of Eegents. [IMcZ.,§ 4; ch. 493, § 2.1 



% 21. The botanical department as now organized shall be continued 
Botanical as originally contemplated, for three yoars from the end of 
departm'nt. tHe present year, llbid., § 5.] 



STATE LIBEAET AND MUSEUM. 45 



CONCUREENT EESOLUTIONS OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY 
EELATING TO THE STATE LIBEAEY. 

§ 1. Besolved^ That the law department of the State library having been 

established for the use of the officers of the government, the 
Trust GGS 
may make courts and the bar, as a library in which shall be gathered 

rules, etc., -books to which such officers may be required to refer in the 

and may ^ 

limit its use exercise of their duties ; therefore it is the duty of the trust- 

oers^us^'^ ees of the said library to secure its uninterrupted use to such 
purposes whenever, in their judgment, it may become neces 
sary; and that to secure that end, the said trustees should limit its use 
to such persons and officers especially during the session of the legisla- 
ture and the terms of the courts ; and should also, if it becomes neces- 
sary, inclose the books on the shelves, and make any other rules and 
regulations for the preservation of said library, which may not be incon- 
sistent with the purpose thereof and the statutes concerning the same. 
^Concurrent resolution of the senate and assembly, April 16, 1861 {Laws of 
1861, p. 831J.] 

§ 2. Besolved, That there be added to the thirteenth standing rule of 

the joint rules of the senate and assembly, at the end thereof 

Copies of the following words : " Whenever extra copies of any doc- 
Gxtra docu- r ^ 

ments to be ument shall be ordered printed, the printer shall be author- 

bvnrinter ^^^^ ^"^^ required to deliver to the trustees of the State 
library, at least five copies in addition to the number so or- 
dered for the use of the said library, and whenever more than five hun- 
dred copies are so ordered, the printer shall in like manner furnish five 
additional copies for each five hundred, for the purpose of literary ex 
changes." [ Concurrent resolution of the senate and assemUy, April 21, 1869 
(XaM7S<2/'1869, p. 2418).] 



■16 LAWS RELATIVE TO 



CHAPTER YII. 

IlSr REGARD TO THE ADDITIONAL LAW LIBRARIES FOUND- 
ED BY THE STATE. 

Court of Appeals' Libraries. 

Sec. 1. The public library called the " Chancellor's 
Library of Library " shall continue to be a public li- 
of appeals, brary, under the name of "The Library of 
the Court of Appeals," and the judges of that court 
shall, hj an order entered in their minutes, direct the 
location of the same at some place west of the seat 
of government;* and, on suitable and convenient 
rooms and accommodations being provided in such 
place, the said judges shall direct the clerk of that 
court to remove the said library to that place. But, 
before such removal, the regents of the university may, 
in their discretion, take from said library, and deposit 
in the State Library at Albany, books of which copies 
are not now in said state library. \_Laios of 1849, 
ch. 300, § 1.] 

§ 2. Such books in the said library as are duplicates 

Duplicate or copies of Other books therein, and such 

how to be others as the said judges sjiall think proper, 

of. shall, under the like direction, be located at 

* Under sections 1, 2, of this act, two libraries of the Court of Appeals 
were established, in 1849, one at Syracuse and the other at Rochester. 
[Court of Appeals'" Rough Minutes., vol. 1, page 193; Regents'' Minutes, vol. 
5, page M9.] 



ADDITIONAL LAW LIBRAEIES. 47 

any other place west of the seat of government, which 
the said judges shall designate ; and, on suitable and 
convenient rooms and accommodations being pro- 
vided, such books shall, in like manner, be removed 
to that place, and, on being so removed, those books, 
and such others as shall be added thereto, shall con- 
stitute another public library, and shall be the prop- 
erty of the state. [Ibid. § 2.] 

§ 3. The regents of the university shall appoint a 
Librarian suitable persou to be librarian of the library 

to be ap- 

pointed, of the court of aj)peals, and shall designate 
the com'pensation to be j)aid to him, and they shall 
also appoint a suitable person for librarian of any 
other library which may be established under the 
preceding section, and designate his compensation. 
[Ibid. § 3.] 

§ 4. The three law libraries of the judges of the 
-The law late Supreme court, and the library of the late 

libraries . n ^ t . . 

of late Vice-chancellor oi the second cycuit, are 
court, etc., hereby declared to be for the use of the four 
be used, judges of the court of appeals elected by 
the people of the state at large and their successors 
in office, and the clerk of that court shall cause to be 
made any removal of books necessary to carry this 
section into effect, and for the j^urpose of enlarging 
the library of the late vice-chancellor of the second 
circuit, and equalizing and enlarging the four libraries 
in this section mentioned, a portion of the interest 
fund upon moneys temporarily deposited in the office 
of the clerk in chancery for said second circuit not 



48 LAWS RELATIVE TO 

exceeding three thousand dollars may be applied 
under the direction of the said judges. [Ibid. 

§4-] 

§ 5. The clerk of the court of appeals shall keep 

Clerk of invested in his name of office in such man- 

of appeals ner as that court shall direct, a certain fund 

certain accumulated by the way of interest upon 

monej'S •^ -, • n • ^i ^ 

invested, moneys temporarily deposited m the court 
of chancery, known as the chancellor's library fund 
and interest fund, together with the residue of the 
interest fund from the second circuit mentioned in 
the preceding section ; and the income of such fund 
for the year last past, and the future income thereof, 
until otherwise provided by law, may be expended 
under the direction of the judges of the court of 
appeals as follows: The expenses of carrying this act 
into effect shall be paid therefrom, and also the com- 
pensation of any librarian or librarians to be appointed 
under this act; a portion of said income not exceed- 
ing one-fourth part thereof may be expended in en- 
larging and improving the four libraries for the use 
of the judges mentioned in the last preceding section, 
and the residue shall be expended in enlarging and 
improving the public libraries in the first two sections 
of this act mentioned. Nothing in this act contained 
shall bring a charge u|)on the treasury of the state. 
[Ibid. § 5.] 

§ 6. The regents of the university shall frame and 
Rules to establish suitable rules and regulations for 

byreg'ts. the use of the books in the public libraries 



ADDITIONAL LAW LIBEAEIES. 49 

mentioned in this act, and shall add to and amend the 
game as shall be necessary. [Ibid. § 6. J 

Laiu Library of the First Judicial District. 

§ 7. There shall be a law library located in the 

New York ^^^J ^^ N'ew York, which shall be known as 

lawhbr'y. ^^iq I^ew York law library; and the said 

library shall be under the care and management of 

the justices of the supreme court of the first judicial 

district, who shall be the trustees thereof. The 

Regents trustees of the state library are hereby au- 

izedto thorized to place in the library hereby 

plicate founded, any duplicate of books in their 

therein, possession which they may deem proper. 

[Zaws of 1865, ch. 722, §§1,2, 3.] 

Laiu Library of the Second Judicial District. 
§ 8. There shall be a law library located at the city 
Lawii- of Brooklyn, which shall be known as the 

Ijrary of ... . . 

second ju- law library of the second judicial district. 

dicial dis- •-,■,•■, i n i ■^ ^ ■^ 

trict. Ihe said library snail be under the care and 

management of the trustees of the law library of the 
city of Brooklyn, subject, however, to such orders, 
rules and regulations touching the same, as may be 
made from time to time by a majority of the justices 
of the supreme court residing in said district. The 
Shall report trustees thereof shall yearly make a re23ort 

yearly to . . -,^^. 

regents, to the regents oi the university oi the addi- 
tions made to said library during the preceding year. 
[Laws of 1863, ch. 463, §§ 1, 2.] 

Law Library of the Third Judicial District. 
[The State Library is located in this district.] 



50 LAWS RELATIVE Tt) 

Law Library of the Fourth Judicial District. 

§ 9. There shall be a law library for the fourth 
Lawii- judicial district located at such place as a 
fourth ju- majority of the justices of said district shall 
trict. appoint, which shall be known as the law 

library of the fourth judicial district; and until the 
majority of said justices shall otherwise determine, it 
shall be located in the city of Schenectady. The 
justices of the supreme court of the fourth judicial 
district, for the time being, shall be ex officio trustees 
of the said law library, and the same shall be under 
the care and management of the said trustees. [ILaios 
of 1866, ch. 882, §§ 1, 2.] 

§ 10. The trustees of said library shall report an 

Shall an- nually to the trustees of the state library 

^orfto^^" ^^^ catalogue of books in the said library, 

regents. ^-^^ ^he State and condition thereof The 

Regents trustees of the state library are hereby au- 

izedto thorized to place in the library hereby 

plicate founded, any duplicates of books in their 

therein, possession uot needed in the state library. 

[Ibid § 3.] 

Laiu Library of the Fifth Judicial District 

[The Court of Appeals' Library at Syracuse is in 
this district.] 

Law Library of the Sixth Judicial District. 

[Chapter 230, of the Laws of 1859, provides for 
the establishment of a law library in the sixth judicial 
district, to be located at Binghamton, under the care 
of the justices of the said district and the supervisors 



ADDITIONAL LATT LIBP.AEIES. 51 

of Broome county. The legislature has, from time 
to time, made appropriations for the "benefit of such 
library, but has not required annual reports of its 
condition to be made, other than to the supervisors 
aforesaid]. 

Law Lihrary of the Seventh Judicial District. 

[The Court of Appeals' Library at Rochester is in 
this district.] 

Laiu Library of the Eighth Judicial District. 

§ 1 1. There shall be a law library located at the city 

Lawii- of Buffalo, which shall be known as the law 

eighth ju- library of the eighth judicial district. The 

dicial dis- .tt, ini* t i t 

trict. said library shall be under the care and 

management of the trustees of the Grosvenor library, 
subject, however, to such orders, rules and regulations 
touching the same, as may be made from time to time 
by a majority of the justices of the supreme court 
residing in said district. The trustees thereof shall 
Shall report yearly make a report to the regents of the 

yearly to . . _ , p • t tt r t- 

regents. university 01 the state oi said library. yLiaws 
of 1863, ch. 401, §§ 1, 2.] 

§ 12. The trustees of the state library are hereby 
Regents authorized to place in the library hereby 

izedto founded any duplicates of books in their 

place du- . -, ' ^ ^ t 

plicate possession which they may deem jDroper. 

books -, 

therein. \_1 Old. § 3.J 



52 LAWS RELATIVE TO 



CHAPTER YIIT. 

IN REGAED TO CERTAIN PUBLIC PAPERS AND RECORDS. 

Sec. 1. The manuscript or printed papers of the 
Ms papers legislature, usually termed " on iile," and 
chai-^o-eof whicli have been on file for a longer period 
regents, than five years, in the custody of the clerks 
of the senate and assembly, and all other public re- 
cords of the state, not in the custody of some public 
ofiicer, shall hereafter be placed in charge of the 
regents of the university. [JOatvs of 1859, ch. 821, 

§!•] 

§ 2. This act shall not be construed to cause the 

No papers I'^i^^'^val of the documents on record in the 

from^Itate ^^^^ ^f the Secretary of state or in the cus- 

officers. tody of either of the state ofiicers. [Ibid. 

§2] 

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the trustees of the cap- 
Duty of itol to assign and suitably arrange the room 

trustGGS 

of capitoi. formerly in the use of the judges of the 
court of appeals, and any other rooms which may be 
needed and can be spared for th.e purposes of this act. 
[Ibid. § 3.] 

§ 4. The regents of the university shall have the 
Regents to solc charge and custody of the records and 

have sole . ^ ■ ■, n • r> i • 

charge. papers mentioned m the nrst section oi this 
act, and no pajjer shall be removed from the files in 



PUBLIC PAPERS AND EECOEDS. 53 

their custody, or in the charge of the clerks of either 
house, except on a resolution of the senate and assem- 
bly ; withdrawing the same for a temporary purpose, 
and in case of such removal, a description of the 
paper, and the name of the officer or person receiving 
the same shall be entered in a book to be provided 
for the purpose, with the date of its delivery and 
return. Nothing contained in this act shall be con- 
strued to prevent the clerk of the senate or assembly, 
or a deputy a]3pointed by either of them for that 
purpose, from having access to any papers of the sen- 
ate or assembly respectively, for the purpose of taking 
copies of the same, as hereinafter provided. [Ibid. § 4.] 
§ 5. It shall be the duty of the regents of the uni- 
Duty of versity, and of the clerks of the senate and 

regents . 

and clerks assembly respectively, to cause all pai3ers 
of both . , . , / , .^ -, -, 

houses. in their charge to be so classmed and ar- 
ranged that they can be easily found. \_Ihid. § 5.] 

§ 6. No paper shall be withdrawn from the files of 
Certified the Senate or assembly except temporarily, 
papers. as is provided for in section four of this act, 
whether the same is in the charge of the regents, or 
of the clerks of either house, but every person apply- 
ing therefor to the clerk of the senate or assembly, 
shall be entitled to receive a certified .copy of any 
petition, memorial, remonstrance, resolution, affida- 
vit, report or other paper of any kind on said files 
upon payment to said clerk for such copy and certifi- 
cate, for his own use, the same fees which are by law 

Fees. charged by the secretary of state for en- 

.5* 



54 LAWS RELATIVE TO. CERTAIN PAPEES, ETC 

grossing and certifying exem23lifications of records 
de230sited in his office. A copy of any paper on the 
Copiep to jBles of the senate, certified by the clerk of 

be evi- . . '' 

dence, etc. the Senate, with his seal of office attached, 
or a copy of any paper on the files of the assembly, 
certified by the clerk of the assembly, with his seal 
of office attached, may be read and shall be received 
in evidence in any of the courts of this state, or be- 
fore the canal commissioners, the canal appraisers, or 
before any state officer or other authority in like 
manner, and with the same effect as if the original 
was produced. The clerks of the senate and assem- 
bly respectively shall forthwith procure a suitable 
seal and press for the purposes of this act, and shall 
each deposit a certified copy of such seal in the office 
of the secretary of state. \_Ibid. § 6.] 

§ 7. It shall be the duty of the joint library com- 
jy^^. ^f mittee of the legislature, annually, to exam- 

irarycom- i"^ ^'^^ report to the legislature, the condition 
mittee. ^^ ^]^g public records in the custody either 

of the clerks of the senate or assembly, of the re- 
Q^ents, of the secretary of state, and all other state 
officers in the city of Albany, and particularly whether 
section five of this act is faithfully observed ; and 
the regents of the university shall report to the legis- 
lature, at the commencement of every session, a list 
of all papers taken from their custody in accordance 
with section four of this act which have not been 
returned, with the date of their withdraAval, and the 
name of the officer receiving the same. \_Ihid. § 7.] 



OKDINANCES INCOEPOKATION OF COLLEGES. 55 



FAR.T II. 

OEDINAJ^CES OF THE EEGENTS. 
CHAPTER IX. 

INCORPORATIOlSr OF COLLEGES. 

Sec. 1. When any application is or shall be made to 
the regents for the incorporation of a college under the 
6th section of the act of the legislature, passed the 5th 
day of April, 1813, entitled "An act relating to the 
University" (or cha^j. 184 of the laius of 1853, enti- 
tled " An act relative to the incorporation of colleges 
and academies "), the applicants will be required to 
satisfy the regents that suitable buildings for the use 
of the college will be provided, and that funds to the 
amount of one himdred tJiousand dollars^ with which 
it is intended to found and provide for such college, 
have been paid or secured to be paid by valid sub- 
scriptions of responsible parties or otherwise. 

§ 2. And in case the regents shall approve of said 
application, and the amount aforesaid shall not be in- 
vested for the use of said college, either in bonds and 
mortgages on unincumbered lands within this state, 
Avorth at least double the amount so secured therein, 
or in stocks of this state or the United States, at 
their market value at the time of the investment, or 
in the bonds or certificates of stocks legally issued 



56 ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

by some incorporated city of this state, at the par 
value, or in any one or more of the securities above 
enumerated, a charter shall be granted for the incor- 
poration of such college, for a term of five years, 
with a condition or proviso therein, that if within 
the said term of five years, the trustees of said col- 
lege shall present to the regents satisfactory evidence 
that they have invested for the use of said college, 
funds amounting to not less than one hundred thou- 
sand dollars, in the manner herein before mentioned, 
the charter shall be perpetual. [ Ordinance of Jan. 
0, 1851.] 



INCOEPORATIO]Sr OF ACADEMIES. 57 



CHAPTER X. 

IlSrCORPOEATIOJSr OF ACADEMIES. 

[Academies are incorporated: 1. With absolute 
charters. 2. With provisional charters founded on 
endowments by donation. 3. With provisional char- 
ters founded on joint stock. The requirements for 
an absolute charter are an academy lot and building 
of the value of at least two thousand dollars. A 
library of the value of at least one hundred and fifty 
dollars. A philosophical apparatus of the value of 
at least one hundred and fifty dollars. The require- 
ments for a provisional charter are a good and valid 
subscription to the amount of at least two thousand 
and five hundred dollars. A provisional charter will 
be declared absolute whenever it shall appear that a 
suitable building has been erected and a philosophical 
apparatus and library have been procured, and a 
school properly organized.] 

Sec. 1 . No academy will be received under the visi- 
tation of the regents, so as to entitle it to share in 
the distribution of the funds granted to academies, 
unless it appears that the academy lot and buildings, 
and^the library and philosophical apparatus which it 
may own, have been fully paid for ; or unless it ap- 
pears that such lot and buildings, library and appa- 
ratus, are of the value of five thousand dollars or 



58 OEDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

upwards, and that the debts of such academy do not 
exceed one-third of the amount of the value thereof; 
and in such case it may be so received, but only on 
condition that it shall annually thereafter pay the 
interest of such debt, and at least five per cent of 
the principal thereof, until such debt be wholly paid 
and extinguished ; and that on the omission of any 
such annual payment of interest and principal, or 
any part thereof, it shall, during such omission, cease 
to have any claim to share in the distribution of such 
funds. Nor will the regents incorporate any academy 
unless it appears that the academy lot and buildings, 
and the library and philosophical apparatus have 
been fully paid for, unless the value of such lot, build- 
ings, library and philosophical apparatus shall' be five 
thousand dollars or upwards, and the amount of the 
debts of such academy shall not exceed one-third of 
such value ; and in any such case the charter will be 
granted only on the condition that the interest npon, 
and at least five j)er cent of the principal of its debts, 
shall be paid annually until the whole debt be paid 
and extinguished ; and that any omission to make any 
such annual payment of interest and principal shall, 
in the discretion of the regents, bar it of all right to 
partici23ate in the distribution of said fund. All acad- 
emies heretofore provisionally chartered upon condi- 
tion that they should not be entitled to share in the 
distribution of the fund granted to academies until 
their debts should be fully paid, upon due proof 
bringing them within these provisions, may have the 



INCOEPOKATIOX OF ACADEMIES. 59 

full benefit thereof, in the same manner, and to the 
same extent, as though their charters were upon 
the conditions hereinbefore prescribed, and their 
charters shall be taken, and are hereby declared to 
be amended accordingly. [^07'di7iance of Jan. 15, 
1857.] 

§ 2. Every application to the regents of the uni- 
versity for an absolute charter for the incorporation 
of an academy founded on the endowment of property 
already possessed by the applicants, and ever}'- appli- 
cation of an academy, incorporated by the legislature, 
to become subject to the visitation of the regents, 
shall set forth, with all practicable precision, and in 
such form as is or shall be prescribed by the regents, 
a particular statement showing — 

1st. The extent, general description, title and value 
of the ground on which the academy edifice is erected, 
or which is used for its accomodation at the time of 
making such application. 

2d. The dimensions, general description, and value 
of the buildings erected on such ground for the use 
or accommodation of such academy, at the time last 
aforesaid. 

3d. An inventory or catalogue of all the beoks and 
articles of philosophical or other apparatus belonging 
to such academy, with a just and fair estimate of their 
value, at the time last above referred to. 

4th. A particular statement of all incumbrances on 
such academic property, or on any part thereof, at the 
time last above mentioned — it being the intention 



60 OEDINANCES KELATIVE TO 

of tne regents to require every academy subject to 
their visitation, to own and possess such property to 
the value of at least two thousand five hundred dol- 
lars, over and above all incumbrances thereon, as a 
condition on which such academy will be allowed to 
receive a distributive share of the moneys belonging 
to the literature fund. 

§ 3. And to the end that the regents may be the 
better enabled to ascertain the true value of such 
academic grounds, buildings and apparatus, at the 
time of making such application, the said statements 
shall also set forth and show, when and how the title 
to such ground, library and apparatus was first ac- 
quired, and if acquired by purchase, what the original 
or first cost thereof was ; and also, when such build- 
ings were erected, enlarged or otherwise improved, 
of what materials they are constructed, with the 
original or first cost of such buildings or improve- 
ments ; also the state or condition of such academic 
property, at the time of making such report or appli- 
cation, in respect to its repair or fitness for use ; and 
if the same be not in good repair, wherein, and how 
long it has been out of repair, and the probable cost 
of putting it in good repair, together with such other 
matters as may be found to influence in any respect 
the value of such property. That it shall be the duty 
of the trustees of every such academy, previous to 
making their said application as required by this ordi- 
nance, to submit the evidences of their title to the 
ground occupied for their academic buildings, to some 



INCOEPOEATION OF ACADEMIES. 61 

person of the degree of counselor at law in the su- 
preme court, for his examination and to obtain from 
him a certificate in writing, stating his examination 
of the title submitted to him, with his opinion as to 
the nature and validity of such title, and stating, 
also, that he has caused the ordinary searches to be 
made for incumbrances on such property, with the 
result of such searches ; which said certificate shall 
be transmitted by the said trustees, together with 
their said application, to the said regents. [1853, 
Oct. 20.] 

§ 4. Any college, academy, or institution of learn- 
ing, desirous of obtaining amendments to, or altera- 
tions in its charter, shall give notice of its intended 
application to the regents for the same at least six 
weeks saccessively, immediately before said applica- 
tion is presented, in a newspaper published at or near 
the city, town or village in which said college, acade- 
my or institution of learning may be situated, and in 
the state paper. Duly authenticated proof of said 
publication shall be filed with the regents of the uni- 
versity. [1853, June 10.] 

FOEMS OF APPLICATION TO THE ReGENTS OF THE 

Univeesity foe the incoepoeation of an 
Academy 

I. For incorporation with an absolute charter when 
the ground has been procured, the buildings erect- 
ed and library and apparatus provided. 
6 



62 OEDINANCES EELATIYE TO 

To the Regents of the University of the State of New Yorh : 

The application of the subscribers, inhabitants of 
, in the county of , 

Respectfully represents : 

That being desirous to found an academy at 
in the county of , they have, for that purpose 

(together with others, if the fact be so), procured a 
suitable lot, erected a suitable building thereon, and 
su|)j)lied it with a suitable library and apparatus, for 
the accommodation of such academy as will appear 
by the following description : 

1. Ground for Academy Buildings. 

The lot of ground on which the buildings of said 
academy stand, or which is to be used for its accom- 
modation, consists of [here state the quantity, either 
in acres or parts of acres, or the number of feet in 
breadth and depth.] The lot of ground was pur- 
chased in the year , for % ; or it was given 
to the academy in the year [as the case may be.] 
There were then no improvements on it [or if there 
were any, describe them ; state the title to the ground, 
whether in perpetuity, or for a term of years, and if it 
be subject to a ground rent, state amount, etc. Give 
a general description of all improvements (except 
buildings) made on it. After giving all such and 
similar data on which estimates of value depend, 
state the present value of the ground, including 
fences, ornamental trees, and all other improvements, 
except buildings.] 

2. Academy Buildings. 

The buildings erected on the ground above de- 
scribed, and to be used for the accommodation of the 
academy, consist of [here describe the principal 
buildings, with their dimensions ; state when and of 



INCOEPOEATION OF ACADEMIES. 



63 



what materials they were originally built, or have 
been since enlarged or improved ; give a general de- 
scription of their internal divisions, "fitness or con- 
venience for use, etc., with a statement of the original 
or first cost of the buildings, and of all additions or 
improvements thereto, so far as the same can be as- 
certained. Then state their present condition as to 
their being in or out of repair, and if out of repair, 
what will be the probable cost of putting them in 
good repair. After giving all such and similar data 
on which estimates of value depend, state the present 
actual value of such buildings.] 

3. Academy Libeaey 

The folio wmg is a catalogue of all the books be- 
longing to said proposed academy, with the original 
or first cost (so far as it can be ascertained), and the 
present value of each book. [Proceed with the cat- 
alogue in the following form] : 



Titles or names of books arraBged ac- 
cordiBg to catalogue. 


Number of 
volumes. 


Original 
cost. 


Present 
value. 






$ 


$ 


Total of each following colnmn, — 




$ 


$ 



Give a general description of the condition of the 
books in the library in respect to their being new or 
old, in good order or worn, etc. 

4. Philosophical Apparatus. 

The following is an inventory of all the articles of 
philosophical or other apparatus at the date of this 
application with the original or first cost (so far as 
can be ascertained), and the present value of each 



64 



OEDINANCES KELATIVE TO 



article ; [here proceed with the inventory, including 
in it, besides what is strictly and technically philo- 
sophical and chemical apparatus, all instruments used 
in, or illustrative of any of the arts or sciences, and 
any collection in geology and mineralogy, and in nat- 
ural history.] 



Description or name of each article. 


Original cost. 


Present value. 




$ 


$ 


Total of each following column, 


$ 


$ 



Give a general description of the condition of the 
apparatus in respect to its being new or old, in good 
order or injured, etc. 

5. Title of Peopekty, Incumbrances, etc. 

The evidences of title to the property described in 
the preceding sections of this report, have been sub- 
mitted to , of , who is a counselor at law 
in the supreme court, whose certificate in writing, as 
to the nature and validity of said title, accompanies 
this report.* The said property is free from all in- 
cumbrances [if such be the case, or if there be any 
incumbrances on it, state the general amount of them, 
arid refer to certificate of said counsel for particulars, 
etc.] 

6. Other Academic Property. 

The property of the proposed academy, other than 
the academy lot, buildings, library and apparatus 



* The certificate of counsel must state his examination of the title 
submitted to him, with his opinion as to the nature and validity of such 
title, and also, that he has caused the ordinary searches to be made for 
incumbrances on such property, with the result of such searches. 



IISrCOEPOEATION OF ACADEMIES. 65 

above described, consists of [here describe the prop- 
erty in the most general terms, such as the following]: 

Bonds and mortgages, notes and subscriptions, con- 
sidered good $ 

Real estate, consisting of 

Total I 

7. Debts. 

The debts contracted on account of the acade- 
my now asked to be incorporated, and which 
remain unpaid at the date of this applica- 
tion, amount to I 

Net value of property I 

8. Summary Statements. 

The total value of all the academic property above 
described, is as follows : 

Yalue of lot for academy buildings $ 

Value of buildings thereon 

Value of library 

Value of philosojDhical apparatus 



Total value of lot, buildings, library and 

apparatus 

Deduct for incumbrances and debts, if any, 

thereon 

Balance of value over and above all incum- 
brances and debts 

Add for other academic property 

Total net value of proj^erty 

6* 



66 OEDINANCES EELATIYE TO 

And the said subscribers further represent, that 
they have contributed more than one-half in value of 
the property collected for the use of said academy, 
as herein before set forth ; that they are desirous to 
have the said academy incorporated, by the name of 
[here state the name, which it is desirable should be 
descriptive of the place where the academy is] ; and 
to that end they hereby nominate the following named 
persons to be the first trustees of said academy [give 
christian names in full] : 

The said subscribers do therefore hereby make ap- 
plication to the regents of the university for the 
incorporation of the persons above nominated as the 
first trustees of said academy by the name above 
specified. 

[Here follow the signatures of the subscribers, 
which must be in their own handwriting.] 

Authentication oe Application. 

The preceding application was submitted to a meet- 
ing of the subscribers held by them on the 
day of , at which meeting the following 

named persons were present [state names], and hav- 
ing been read and approved, it was duly adopted as 
the application of said meeting, and ordered (after 
being verified by the oath of the chairman or presid- 
ing ofiicer) to be transmitted to the regents of the 
university, pursuant to their ordinance in such case 
made and provided. 

All of which is hereby done in obedience to said 
order this day of 

(Signed) A. B., 

Chairwian or Presiding Officer. 

Affidavit above Referred to 

State of New York, | 
County of , j * 

A. B., being duly sworn (or affirmed, as the case 



INCOEPOEATlOIsr OF ACADEMIES. 67 

may be), deposetli and saith, that he was the chairman 
or presiding officer of the meeting, held as above 
stated, of contributors to the proposed academy ; 
that he is acquainted with the contents of said appli- 
cation, and that the statement of facts therein set 
forth is in all respects true to the best of his knowl- 
edge, information and belief. 

(Signed) A. B. 

Subscribed and sworn before me, ) 

this day of 187 . f 

Form of Chaetek geanted on the peeceding 
Application. 

University of the State of New Y'or'k. 

By the Regents of the University of the State of New 
York: 

Whereas, and others, by an instrument 

in writing under their hands, bearing date the 
day of in the year 18 , after stating that 

they had contributed more than one-half in value of 
the real and personal property and estate collected 
or appropriated for the use and benefit of the Acade- 
my erected at the of , in the county 
of , did. make application to us the said 
Regents, in the form and manner required by law, 
and by the ordinances of us the said Regents in that 
behalf, that the said Academy might be incorporated 
by the name of , and that 
might be the first trustees of the said Academy, and 
it having been made to appear to our satisfaction, 
that the said academy is endowed with suitable acade- 
mic buildings, library and philosophical apparatus of 
the value of at least two thousand five hundred dol- 
lars, and conceiving the said academy calculated for 
the promotion of literature, We the said Regents do, 
by these presents, pursuant to the Statute in such 



68 OEDIIS'ANCES RELATIVE TO 

case maae and provided, signify our approbation of 
the incorporation of the trnstees of the said academy, 
by the aforesaid name of , and that the same 

shall be subject to the visitation of ns and of our 
successors, as provided by law. On Condition, how- 
ever, that the said endowment shall never be dimin- 
ished in value below two thousand five hundred 
dollars, and that the same shall never be applied to 
purposes other than for public academic instruction ; 
subject also to the ordinance of us, the said Regents, 
as to the debts of Academies, passed January 15, 1857. 

In Witness whereof, we, tlie said Regents, have caused our 

common seal to be hereunto affixed, and our Chancellor 

and Secretary to subscribe tlieir names, this day 

[l. s.] of , in the year one thousand eight hundred 

and 

Chancellor 

, Secretary, 

II. For a provisional incorporation, to facilitate the 
purchase of a site for an academy, and the erection 
of the necessary buildings, and for the organization 
of a proper course of instruction. 

1. With a capital stock, pursuant to chapter 544 of 
laws of 1851, and chapter 184 of laws of 1853. 

To the Regents of the University of the State of New Yorh : 

The petition of the undersigned, inhabitants of the 
, in county of , 

Respectfully represents : 

That they are desirous to found an academy in the 

, in the county of , with a capital 

stock of dollars, to be divided into shares of 

dollars each, pursuant to the act chapter 544 

of laws of 1851, and the act chapter 184 of the laws 

of 1853, and that subscriptions to the said capital 



INCOEPOEATIOlSr OF ACADEMIES. 69 

stock have been procured to the amount of 
dollars, as will appear by the list of said subscriptions, 
a copy whereof is hereto annexed, from which it also 
appears that your jDCtitioners are the subscribers for 
more than one-half of the said amount. That at least 
ten per cent of the amount subscribed has been paid 
by or for each subscriber in cash, and is now held by 
your petitioners on their behalf, for the purposes of 
the incorporation herein prayed for. That all the 
said subscriptions are, as your jDctitioners believe, 
made in good faith and by parties who have the 
ability to pay the amount subscribed by them respect- 
ively. That your petitioners are desirous that the 
said academy may be incorporated by the name of 
, and that they do hereby nominate the fol- 
lowing persons as the first trustees thereof [give 
christian names in full] : 

The undersigned do therefore request the regents 
to incorporate the j^ersons above nominated as the 
first trustees of the said academy by the name above 
mentioned. It being distinctly declared and under- 
stood by your petitioners, that the said incorporation 
is now asked for to facilitate the purchase of a site 
for the said academy and the erection of the necessary 
buildings therefor, and for the commencement and 
organization of a proper course of instruction therein ; 
and that if a proper building for the purposes of the 
said academy shall not be provided and erected, and 
a suitable course of instruction be organized within 
two years from the granting of the charter prayed 
for, and a report of the same made by the said trust- 
ees or their successors to the said regents, containing 
all the particulars required in the case of an applica- 
tion for granting a charter to an academy already 
endowed with sufficient academic property, that then, 
at any time thereafter, the said charter, on a declara- 



YO OEDINAITCES EEL ATI YE TO 

tion to that effect to be raacle by the said regents on 
their minutes, on evidence satisfactory to them, shall 
become and be absolutely void ; and on the further 
understanding, that the said academy is not to be 
entitled to any part of the funds which may by law, 
from time to time, be distributed to or divided among 
the incorporated academies of the state, arising from 
the income of the literature fund or otherwise, until the 
said capital stock shall have been fully paid in, and 
until a suitable academy building shall have been 
erected or procured therefor, and a library and philo- 
sophical apparatus obtained of the character and 
value required by the ordinances of the regents. 

The following is a copy of the subscription list 
above referred to : 

[Here follow the signatures of subscribers in their 
own handwriting.] 

Aefidavit. 
State of New York, 



County of , f * 

A, B, C (three at least), signers to the above appli- 
cation, being duly sworn' (or affirmed, as the case may 
be), depose and say, that they are acquainted with 
the contents of the preceding application, that the 
statement of facts therein set forth is in all respects 
true, to the best of their knowledge, information and 
belief, that they believe the said subscription to be a 
valid one, and that the application is made in good 
faith for the purposes therein stated. 

(Signed), A. 



B. 
C. 



Subscribed and sworn before me, ) 

this day of , 187 . f 



incorpokation of academies. yl 

Form of Charter granted on the preceding 
Application. 

JJyiwersUy of the State of New York. 

By the Regents of the University of the State of New 
York: 

Whereas, and others, have in due form 

made application in writing, under their hands, to the 
said Regents, representing that they are desirous to 
found an Academy in the , in the county 

of , with a capital stock of dollars, 

to be divided into shares of dollars each, 

as authorized by law, and that they, the said appli- 
cants, are the subscribers for more than half the said 
amount, and requesting that the said Academy may 
be incorporated by the name of , and 

nominating the following persons as first Trustees 
thereof: . And the said Regents 

having considered the said application, do hereby, 
pursuant to the authority vested in them by law, de- 
clare their approbation of the incorporation of the 
persons in that behalf above named as trustees of 
the said Academy, by the aforesaid name of 

, and do hereby incorporate the said 
Academy accordingly, with the capital stock above 
mentioned, and subject to the visitation of the said 
Regents, and of their successors, as j^rovided by law. 
On condition, however, that the said capital stock 
shall not be diminished in amount, and that the same 
shall never be applied to purposes other than for pub- 
lic academic instruction. And on the further condi- 
tion and understanding, that if a j^i'oper building for 
the purposes of the said Academy shall not be pro- 
vided or erected, and a suitable course of instruction 
be organized therein, within two years from the date 
hereof, and a report of the same be made by the said 
trustees, Ox their successors, to the said Regents, con- 



^2 OEDIlSrANCES EELATIYE TO 

taining the particulars in that behalf required by 
their ordinances, that then, at any time thereafter, 
this charter, on a declaration to that effect to be made 
by the said Regents on their minutes, on evidence 
satisfactory to them, shall become absolutely void. 
And it is also further expressly understood, that the 
said Academy is not to be entitled to any part of the 
funds which may by law be distributed to or divided 
among the incorporated academies of this state, 
arising from the income of the literature fund, or 
otherwise, until the said capital stock shall have been 
fully paid in, and until a suitable academy building 
shall have been erected or procured, and a library 
and philosophical apparatus obtained for the said 
academy, of the character and value required by law 
and the ordinances of the said regents, and until also 
it shall satisfactorily appear to the said regents that 
their ordinance in regard to the debts of academies, 
passed January 15, 1857, has been fully complied 
with. 

In Witness whereof, the said Regents have caused their 

common seal to be hereunto affixed, and their Chancellor 

and Secretary to subscribe their names, this day of 

[l. s.] , in the year one t]iousand eight hundred 

and 

, Chancellor. 

, Secretari/. 

2. For a provisional incorporation founded on dona- 
tions or endowments not in form of the capital stock. 

To the Regents of the University of the State of New York • 

The petition of the undersigned, inhabitants of the 
, in the county of , 

Respectfully represents : 

That they are desirous to found an academy at , 

in the county of , and that for the endowm-ent 



INCORPOEATION OF ACADEMIES. VS 

of sucli academy, subscriptions have been obtained 
to the amount of dollars, as will appear by a 

copy of the subscription list hereunto annexed, and 
from which it also appears that your petitioners have 
contributed more than one-half of the said amount 
thus subscribed. That at least ten per cent of the 
amount subscribed has been paid by or for each sub- 
scriber in cash, and is now held by your petitioners 
or on their behalf, for the purposes of the incorj^ora- 
tion herein prayed for. That all the said subscriptions 
are, as your petitioners believe, made in good faith 
and by parties who have the ability to pay the 
amount subscribed by them respectively, and that no 
other property has been contributed or collected for 
the said academy. That your petitioners request 
that the said academy may be incorporated by the 
name of , and they do hereby nominate the 

following persons as the first trustees thereof [give 
christian names in full] : 

The undersigned do therefore request the regents 
to incorporate the persons above nominated as the 
first trustees of the said academy by the name above 
mentioned. It being distinctly declared and under- 
stood by your petitioners that the said incorporation 
is now asked for to facilitate the purchase of a site 
for the said academy and the erection of the necessary 
buildings therefor, and for the commencement and 
organization of a proper course of instruction therein ; 
and that if a proper building for the purposes of the 
said academy shall not be provided or erected, and a 
suitable course of instruction be organized within two 
years from the granting of the charter prayed for, 
and a report of the same be made by the said trust- 
ees to the said regents, containing all the particulars 
required in the case of an application for the incorpo- 
ration of an academy by the said regents, that then, 

7 



74 OEDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

at any time thereafter, the said charter, on a declara- 
tion to that effect to be made by the said regents on 
their minutes, on evidence satisfactory to them, shall 
become and be absolutely void ; and on the further 
understanding, that the said academy is not to be 
entitled to any part of the funds which may by law, 
from time to time, be distributed to or divided among 
the incorporated academies of the state, arising from 
the income of the literature fund or otherwise, until 
at least two thousand five hundred dollars shall have 
been paid in or contributed towards founding and 
establishing the same, and until a suitable academy 
building shall have been erected or procured there- 
for, and a library and philosophical apparatus obtained 
of the character and value required by the ordinances 
of the regents. 

The following is a copy of the subscription list 
above referred to : 

[Here follow the signatures of the petitioners who 
have contributed as above, in their own handwriting.] 

Affidavit. 

State of New Yoek, 



County of , f ' 

A, B, C, [three at least,] signers of the above appli- 
cation, being duly sworn [or affirmed, as the case may 
be], depose and say, that they are acquainted with 
the contents of the preceding application, and that the 
statement of facts therein set forth is in all respects 
true, to the best of their knowledge, information and 
belief, that they believe the said subscription to be a 
valid one, and that the application is made in good 
faith for the purposes therein stated. 

(Signed) A. 

B. 
C. 
Subscribed and sworn before me, [ 

this :ciy of 187 . ) 



INCORPOEATION OF ACADEMIES. 75 

[If any donations, other than in money, have been 
made to the academy, such as a lot for the site of the 
building, etc., etc., the fact should be stated in the ap- 
plication, and the property described, and the value 
thereof, and the foregoing form should be altered to 
conform to the circumstances.] 

The form of charter on this application is mainly 
the same as the preceding. 

III. Form of application by the trustees of an 
academy provisionally incorporated, asking that the 
provisional charter may be declared absolute. 

To the Regents of the University of the State of New YorJc : 

The trustees of academy respectfully rep- 

resent, that they received from your honorable body 
a provisional charter, bearing date ] 8 , that 

they have founded an academy at , in the 

county of , procured a suitable lot, erected a 

suitable building thereon, and supplied it with a suit- 
able library and apparatus for the accommodation of' 
such academy, as will appear by the following de- 
scription [here adopt the form prescribed for an ap- 
plication for an absolute charter on page 62 et seq.] 

The said trustees do therefore hereby make appli- 
cation to the regents of the university, that the 
charter of their academy, issued and dated as afore- 
said, be declared absolute, and that they be admitted 
to all the rights and privileges of academies incorpo- 
rated with an absolute charter. 

[Here is to follow the authentication of the appli- 
cation in the form prescribed on page 66 et seq.] 

IV. Form of application of an academy already 
incorporated by the legislature, to become subject to 
the visitation of the regents of the university. 



76 OEDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

To the Regents of the University of the State of Neiu York: 

The trustees of academy, established at , 

respecifully represent, that they were incorporated 
by the legislature on the day of ,18 ; 

that they are desirous to become subject to the visi- 
tation of the regents of the university, to enable them 
to participate in the distribution of the moneys be- 
longing to the literature fund, pursuant to the statute 
in such case made and provided ; and to that end they 
hereby subject the said academy to the visitation of 
the said regents, to the same extent and in the same 
manner as if they had been originally incorporated 
by them ; and the said trustees herewith submit the 
following statement of the condition of their institu- 
tion on the date of this application, in respect to the 
several subject-matters required to be embraced in 
it. 

[Here adopt the form given on page 62 et seq., ob- 
serving the fact, that, as in one case there is an appli- 
cation for an incorporation, and in the other, the 
academy is already incorporated, it is necessary to use 
terms conformable to the respective cases.] 

V. Form of application of the board of education 
of a union school to subject their academical depart- 
ment to the visitation of the regents of the university. 

To the Regents of the University of the State of New Yorh : 

The undersigned, constituting the board of educa- 
tion, or the trustees of the union school of , 
in the county of , 
Respectfully represent : 

That said union school has been established under 
the provisions of chapter of the laws of 18 ; 



VISITATION OF ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENTS. 77 

that an academical department has Ibeen organized 
and is in operation in said school ; that the said 
academical department is taught in the building ap- 
propriated to said school [or if a separate building 
has been provided, let it be so stated] ; that a suita- 
ble library and apparatus have been provided, as will 
more fully appear by the following description [here 
describe grounds and buildings, and give catalogue 
of library and a^Dparatus, as directed in the form of 
application for the incorporation of an academy 
proper on page 62 et seq.']. 

The undersigned do therefore hereby make appli- 
cation to the regents of the university, that the said 
academical department may be received under their 
visitation, according to the provisions of law in such 
case made and provided. [To be signed by the mem- 
bers of the board of education.] 



Authentication of Application. 

:1 



State of New Yoek, 
County of , j 

being duly sworn 
(or affirmed as the case may be), deposes and says, 
that he is president of the board of education of 

; that he is well acquainted with the 
facts set forth in the preceding application to the 
regents of the university, and that the same are in all 
respects true, to the best of his knowledge, informa- 
tion and belief. 

(Signed) A. B. 

Subscribed and sworn before me, ) 

this day of , 187 . [ 

7* 



78 OEDINANCES EELATIYE TO 



CHAPTER XI. 

ANNUAL EEPOETS OF ACADEMIES. 

1. As to the Financial Condition of Academies. 

Sec. 1. The trustees of eveiy academy incorpo- 
rated by the regents or subject to their visitation, 
shall, in every annual report to the regents, either 
make and transmit a full statement of all the acade- 
mic property then belonging to them in the manner 
required by the form of application for incorporation, 
or in lieu thereof, state whether such property remains 
in all respects the same as at the time of making any 
previous statement thereof, to be particularly referred 
to by them, or whether the same has been increased 
or diminished in quantity, enhanced or depreciated in 
value, and to what extent, or has in any other and 
what respect, undergone any and what change, since 
the time of making such previous statement — show- 
ing, in all cases, the true value of such property at 
the time of making such report as aforesaid ; and it 
is hereby made the duty of the trustees of every such 
academy, at or near the close of the year for which 
every such report is made, to cause all the books and 
articles of apparatus then actually possessed by thejn, 
to be compared with the original catalogues or inven- 
tories thereof (to be always preserved for that pur- 
pose), to ascertain whether any of their books or 
articles of apparatus have been lost, destroyed or 



ANNUAL KEPOKTS OF ACADEMIES. 79 

damaged beyond, the ordinary wear and tear thereof 
from necessary use, and to state in every such report 
whether such duty has been discharged, and whether 
any, and if any, what part of their books and appa- 
ratus shall on such comparison be found to be lost, 
destroyed or damaged, as aforesaid, and. through 
whose act, omission or neglect such loss or damage 
shall have happened. 

§ 2. Every academy subject to the visitation of the 
regents of the university, and claiming a distributive 
share of the income of the literature fund, shall annu- 
/ally, on or before the first day of November, make and 
transmit to the regents (so that the same may be re- 
ceived by their secretary on or before that day) a 
report in writing, in such form as shall be prescribed, 
exhibiting a full view of its state and condition, at 
the close of its academic year, in respect to the fol- 
lowing particulars, viz. : 

Condition and value of its academic lot and build- 
ings. 

Condition and value of its library and philosophical 
apparatus. 

Kind and value of its other jDroperty. 

Title of its property. 

Incumbrances and debts. 

General cash account. 

Annual revenue and expenditures. 

Amount of money received by it from the regents 
of the university since its last annual report, and how 
the same has been expended. 



80 ORDIlSrANCES EELATIYE TO 

And also in respect to all such other matters as 
shall be required by the said regents to be reported 
on in the form prescribed by them. 

2. As to the Literary and Scieoitijic condition of 
Academies. 

§ 3. The report required as above, shall also con- 
tain the number and names of its teachers, and the 
annual salary or compensation allowed to each ; the 
age of such teachers; the time each has been engaged 
in teaching ; the general course of study pursued pre- 
paratory to teaching ; and whether the business of 
teaching is pursued as a permanent or a temporary 
employment. 

The whole number of pupils, including classical 
and all others, who have been taught during each of 
the academic terms of the year. 

The whole number of pupils who have been taught 
during the whole or any part of the academic year 
for which the report is made. 

The number of pupils belonging to the academy 
at the date of its report, or who belonged to it 
during part of the year, ending on the date thereof, 
and who are claimed by the trustees to have pursued 
for four months of said year or upwards, classical 
studies, or the higher branches of English education, 
or both, according to the form to be from time to 
time prescribed. 

§ 4. The said report shall also contain, or have ap- 
pended or annexed to it, a true catalogue or list of 
all the students belonging to the academy at the date 



AXXUAL EEPOETS OF ACADEMIES. 81 

of its report, or duriDg part of the year ending on 
the date of its report, who are claimed by its trus- 
tees to be such classical scholars, or such scholars 
in the higher branches of English education, or both, 
and to have pursued their studies for such length of 
time as to entitle the academy to which they belong 
to a distributive share of the income of the literature 
fund, in which said catalogue or list shall be inserted 
the name or age of each student claimed to be such 
scholar as aforesaid, together with a specification of 
the different studies pursued by such student, and the 
length of time the same were pursued in each quarter 
or term of the year ending on the date of said report, 
by recitations of ordinary frequency and in the ordi- 
nary way, designating said studies by the ordinary 
name or ti-tle of the book or treatise on the subject so 
studied, and designating also the part or portion of 
the book or treatise so studied. 

The said report shall be properly authenticated and 
verified by the affidavit of the president of the trus- 
tees, and of the principal of the academy. [ Ordinance 
of October 1^, 1853.] 



82 OBDINANCES KELATIVE TO 



CHAPTER XII. 

EXAMINATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SCHOLARS AND 
DISTRIBUTION OP THE LITEEATUKE FUND. 

Sec. 1. The scholars in every academy subject to 
the visitation of the regents of the university shall 
be divided into two classes, to be denominated pre- 
paratory and academic. Preparatory scholars shall 
be those who pursue studies preliminary to the higher 
branches of English education ; and academic schol- 
ars, those who, having passed the examination in 
preliminary studies hereinafter provided for, shall 
pursue the higher branches of English education, or 
the classics, or both. 

§ 2. At or near the close of each academic year, 
and oftener, if judged necessary by the trustees of 
any academy, an examination in writing of all schol- 
ars presumed to have completed preliminary studies 
shall be held, in conformity with instructions to be 
issued by the chancellor and secretary of the univer- 
sity, under the direction of a committee of at least 
three persons to be appointed by the trustees of the 
academy. Printed sets of questions in arithmetic, 
English grammar and geography, and an exercise in 
spelling, shall be prepared or approved by the chan- 
cellor and secretary of the university, and furnished 
to each academy making due application for the same. 
A record of the names, ages and residences of all 



EXAMINATION OF SCHOLARS. 83 

scholars who shall successfully pass such examination, 
with the number of questions correctly answered in 
each exercise, shall be kept in a book provided for 
the purpose, and preserved as the property of the 
academy. 

§ 3. The written answers to the questions and exer- 
cises, as given by each scholar who shall be claimed to 
have passed the examination, shall be forwarded to 
the secretary of the university within one month after 
the date of the examination, accompanied by a state- 
ment of the name, age and residence of each scholar 
claimed as aforesaid, and the number of correct an- 
swers claimed to have been given in each study, duly 
certified by the committee and verified by the afiSda- 
davit of the principal ; and to each scholar who shall 
be found to have answered at least seventy-five per 
cent of the questions on each subject, and to have 
written with correct spelling and in a fair and legible 
hand at least eighty-five per cent of the words in the 
spelling exercise, shall be given a certificate of aca- 
demic scholarship, in such form as the chancellor of 
the university shall approve, and under the name of 
the chancellor and secretary, to be countersigned by 
the principal of the academy ; which certificate shall 
entitle the person to whom it is granted to admission 
into the academic class in any academy subject to the 
visitation of the reo-ents, without further examination. 

§ 4. Scholars admitted to any academy who have 
not received the certificates of examination as afore- 
said, and who claim or are presumed to be academic 



84 OEDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

scliolars, shall within one week of such admission be 
examined by the principal and other teachers of the 
academy, and if foand to have completed the prelim- 
inary studies, shall be provisionally admitted to the 
academic class ; but such admission shall not excuse 
such scholar from the examination above required at 
the close of the term, and the certificate as aforesaid 
shall be given only on such examination, but may 
have effect as if given at the commencement of the 
term, provided the committee shall be satisfied that 
the scholar to whom it is given was at that time 
entitled to it. 

§ 5. All scholars admitted to the academic class as 
aforesaid, shall be regarded as scholars in the higher 
branches of English education or as classical scholars ; 
and having after such admission pursued studies usu- 
ally regarded as in advance of arithmetic, English 
grammar, and geography, as aforesaid, or having be- 
come thoroughly proficient in the elementary works 
usually studied prior to the classics, and in addition 
thereto having studied the first book of Virgil, or its 
equivalent in Caesar, Sallust or Cicero, shall entitle 
the academy to which they belong to a share in the 
distribution of the literature fund, provided they 
have pursued such studies for four months or upwards 
of the year for which the distribution is made ; the 
said four months to embrace at least thirteen full 
weeks of study. [1870, 3Iarch 29.] 

§ 6. All scholars in the academic class shall be ex- 
ercised in composition and declamation alternately, 



DISTKIBUTIOISr OE LITERATUEE FUND. 86 

* 

as often as once in every week, and in spelling, read- 
ing and writing as often as thorough proficiency in 
those subjects shall require ; except that instead of 
declamation, females may be exercised in reading, 
with special regard to elocution. 

§ 1. The apportionment or distribution of the in- 
come of the literature fund among academies is made 
by the regents of the university, at their annual meet- 
ing in January. Soon after the apportionment is 
made, it is published in the state paper for the time 
being, and certified by the chancellor and secretary 
of the university to the comptroller, on whose war- 
rant the amount aj^portioned to each academy will 
be paid by the treasurer of the state, on drafts or 
orders therefor drawn on him by the treasurers of the 
several academies ; such drafts or orders being accom- 
panied by a proper certificate from the president 
or secretary of the academy, under its corporate seal, 
that the person signing the draft is the treasurer of 
the academy, duly appointed by the trustees thereof. 
The draft must be in the following form, duly in- 
dorsed : 

To the Treasurer of the State of New Y^orJc : 

Pay to the order of , the amount of money ap- 
portioned in January, 18 , to , by the regents 
of the university, out of the income of the literature 
fund. Signed, Treasurer of 
Dated at , 18 . 

It is hereby certified that , the j)erson signing 

the above draft or order, is the treasurer of the said 
academy, duly appointed by the trustees thereof, and 
that the said draft Avas duly signed by him. 

8 



86 OEDINAJSrCES RELATIVE TO 

In Witness wliereof, tlie president of tlie board of trustees lias 
hereto subscribed his name, and caused the corporate 
seal of the academy to be afl&xed,* this day 

^- ^- of 18 . 



President (or Secretary) of 

§ 8. ISTo part of the revenue of the literature fund, 
to be assigned to any academy or school for the pur- 
chase of text books, maps and globes, or philosophical 
or chemical apparatus, shall be paid over to such 
academy or school, until the trustees thereof shall 
certify and declare, under their corporate seal, that 
the money required to be raised and applied by them 
for the said purposes has been raised by contribution, 
donation, or from other sources independent of their 
own corporate property, that the said money has been 
so raised or contributed with the express view of ap- 
plying for and receiving a like sum from the regents 
for the purposes aforesaid, and that the same has been 
actually paid to their treasurer, and is held by him to 
be applied for the purpose above mentioned, designat- 
ing such purpose by specifying the particular books, 
maps and articles of apparatus proposed to be pur- 
chased by them, and classifying them as taken from 
the list or catalogue of the regents or not. 

§ 9. Whenever (but not oftener than once a year) 
the trustees of any such academy or school shall 
present to the regents the certificate required by the 
preceding section, in the form hereafter prescribed, 

* If the academy has no corporate seal, erase the clause "and caused 
the corporate seal of the academy to be affixed," and write *'no seal" 
in the above space reserved for the seal. 



APPROPEIATIONS FOE BOOKS AND APPARATUS. 87 

and the matters contained therein be satisfactory to 
them, they, the said regents, will appropriate a sum 
of money equal to what shall appear from said certi- 
ficate to have been raised for the purpose thereic 
specified, not, however, to exceed the sum of two 
hundred and fifty dollars. 

§ 10. The money so raised and granted shall be ap- 
plied in the purchases specified in such certificate, but 
the regents reserve the right to disapprove of a part 
or the wiiole of said proposed purchases, and to desig- 
nate and direct what may be purchased in lieu there- 
of or of part thereof, notice of the articles so to be 
designated and substituted to be given to said 
trustees. 

§ 11. Whenever any appropriation shall thus be 
made by the regents, it shall be the duty of the chan- 
cellor and secretary of the university to certify the 
same to the comptroller of the state, that the same 
may be paid by him according to the statute in such 
case made and provided, 

§ 12. Such appropriations do not apply to the sums 
of money required for the endowment of an academy, 
viz., $150 for the purchase of a library and $150 for 
the purchase of an apparatus. 

§ 13. Contributions of books, minerals, etc., shall 
not be considered as a sufiicient compliance with the 
above requirements; but the contributions shall be 
in actual money. 

§ 14. The term "text book," contained in the above 
recited act, is construed to include all standard books, 



88 OEDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

whether designed for use as class or text books or 
otherwise. 

§ 15. Every academy to which moneys shall be 
granted for the purchase of books and apparatus, is 
hereby required to report to the regents, in its next 
annual report presented after said grant, the full and 
complete expenditure of all moneys, both raised and 
granted, for the above purpose ; and until it does so 
account, the regents will withhold the amount unac- 
counted for from the respective share of each academy, 
in the distribution of the revenue of the literature and 
United States deposit funds. ISTor will the regents 
make any new appropriation to said academy, unless 
the above requisition has been fully complied with. 

§ 16. Whenever there shall be applications to this 
board for appropriations of money to purchase books 
and apparatus, and there shall not be a sufficient 
amount on hand to grant all such applications, the 
preference shall be given to those academies which 
shall, at the time, have received the least amount from 
the literature fund for that purpose. 

§ 17. The appropriations directed by this ordinance 
shall be made at the annual meeting of the regents in 
January ; and if the sum appropriated by the legisla- 
ture for this purpose is not exhausted by the applica- 
tions at that meeting, then future applications may be 
acted on at the semi-annual meeting in July or 
August. [1853, Oct. 20.] 

§ 18. Applications for money to purchase books 
and apparatus must be in the following form : 



APPEOPEIATIONS FOR BOOKS AND APPAEATUS. 89 

To the Be gents of tTie Unwersity of the State of JSTeio York : 

The trustees of academy respectfully represent 
that they have raised or caused to be raised,, the sum 
of dollars, to be applied to the purchase of books 
and apparatus, pursuant to the statute in such case 
made and provided ; that the said sum has been raised 
by donations or contributions from sources indejDendent 
of their own corporate property ; that the same has 
teen actually paid to their treasurer and is held hy 
him for the purpose aforesaid ,' that the said money 
has been so raised or contributed with the express vieio 
of applying for and receiving a like sum from the 
regents for the purpose contemplated in the statute ; 
and that it is intended to apply the said sum of 
money, together with the money hereby applied for 
pursuant to said act, to the purchase of the books and 
articles of apparatus particularly sj)ecified in the 
schedule hereunto annexed. 

The said trustees therefore hereby apply to the 
regents of the university for an appropriation to the 
said academy of the sum of dollars out of the 

moneys mentioned in the said act, to be applied, 
together with the like sum raised by them as above 
mentioned, to the purposes stated in said schedule, 
pursuant to the provisions of the act above referred to. 
Done by the trustees of said academy, at a legal 
meeting held the day of , etc., at which meet- 
ing the following named trustees were present [state 
names] ; and having been read and approved, it was 
duly adopted at the said meeting as the application 
of said academy, and ordered (after being verified by 
the oath of the presiding officer at said meeting and 
recorded on the minutes of its proceedings) to be 
transmitted to the regents of the university, pursuant 
to the provisions of their ordinance in such case made 
and provided. 

8* 



90 OEDINANCES EELATIVE TO 

All which is hereby done in obedience to said order, 
this day of , etc. 

A. B., President (or President pro tern., 
as the case may be) of Academy. 
affidavit abcvb referiied to. 
State of New York, 



County of S ' ' 

A. B. being duly sworn, deposes and says that he 
is one of the trustees of academy, whose applica- 
tion to the regents of the university immediately 
precedes this affidavit; that he officiated as the pre- 
siding officer at the meeting of the trustees of said 
academy, referred to in the concluding part of said 
application ; that the statement of facts therein set 
forth is true, so far as the same is properly within his 
personal knowledge, and that all the other statements 
he believes to be true. (Signed) A. B. 

Subscribed and sworn before me, the day of 

§ 18. The following is the form of draft for money 
appropriated on the foregoing application : 
To the Treasurer of the State of New York : 

Pay to the order of , the amount of money ap- 
propriated in January, 18 , by the regents of the 
university, to , for the purchase of books and 

apparatus. (Signed) Treasurer of 

Dated at , 18 . 

This draft must be accompanied by a certificate in 
t/he form given on page 85. 

JJ,st of PooJcs recommended for Academy JJihraries. 
§ 19. When an academy is incorporated or received 
under visitation, the library must be well furnished 
with works of reference on the subjects of academic 
Study, such as dictionaries of the English, Latin, Greek 
and French languages, encyclopaedias, gazetteers and 



BOOKS FOR ACADEMY LIBEAEIES. 91 

works on science, for the aid both of teachers and 
pupils. 

§ 20. The following list is furnished for the purpose 
of indicating the kinds of books which the regents of 
the university consider proper to constitute libraries 
for the academies ; but it is not intended to restrict 
the academies exclusively to this list in making their 
selections. If other books are desired, the propriety 
of allowing them to be purchased will be determined 
by the board when applications for the appropriation 
of money for the purpose shall be made. In the cata- 
logues accompanying all such applications, the selec- 
tions from the following lists Avill be distinguished 
from selections not made from it, by placing them in 
different columns, with these captions, viz. : 

THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOBY. 

1 Adams' (Hannah) View of all Keligions. 

2 Buck's Theological Dictionary. 

3 Burnet's History of the Reformation. 

4 Butler's Analogy. 

5 Chalmers' Evidences and Authority of Christian 

Revelation. 

6 D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation. 

7 Josephus' Works. 

8 Kitto's Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature, 

9 M divine's Evidences of Christianity. 

10 Nelson on Infidelity. 

1 1 Paley's Evidences of Christianity. 

12 Paley's Natural Theology. 

13 Pilgrim's Progress. 

14 Prideaux's Connections. 

15 Watson's Apology. 

16 Wilson's Evidences of Christianity. 
11 Wollaston's Religion of Nature. 



92 ORDINAlSrCES RELATIVE TO 

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES. 

18 Adams' Roni<an Antiquities. 

19 Alison's History of Europe. 

20 Allen's American Biographical Dictionary. 

21 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Biography. 

22 Anthon's Classical Dictionary. 

23 Bancroft's History of the United States. 

24 Barry's History of Massachusetts. 

25 Belknap's History of New Hampshire. 
20 Blake's Biographical Dictionary. 

27 Boswell's Life of Johnson. 

28 Botta's History of the American Revolution. 

29 Botta's Italy under Napoleon. 
80 Bozman's History of Maryland. 

3 1 Brodhead's History of New York. 
82 Bulwer's Rise and Fall of Athens. 

33 Cooper's History of the Navy. 

34 De Stael on the French Revolution. 

35 Drake's Biography of the Indians. 

36 Eastman's History of New York. 
3*7 Ferguson's Roman Republic. 

38 Fisk's Eschenburg's Antiquities. 

39 Franklin's Life and Essays. 

40 Gibbon's Roman Empire. 

41 Goldsmith's History of England. 

42 Goldsmith's History of Rome. 

43 Gordon's History of Ireland. 

44 Grahame's History of the United States. 

45 Guizot's History of Civilization. 

46 Hallam's History of the Middle Ages. 

47 Heeren's Historical Works. 

48 Hildreth's History of the United States. 

49 Hume's History of England, with Smollett and 

Bissett's Continuation. 

50 Irving's Life of Columbus. 

51 Irving's Life of Washington. 

52 Lee's Memoirs of the War in the Southern States. 



BOOKS FOR ACADEMY LIBEAEIES. 93 

53 Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution. 

54 Mackintosh's History of the Revolution of 1688. 

55 Marshall's Life of Washington. 

56 Middleton's Life of Cicero. 

57 Mill's History of Chivalry. 

58 Mill's History of the Crusades. 

59 Molina's History of Chili. 

60 Motley's History of the Dutch Republic. 

61 Motley's History of the United Netherlands. 

62 Murphy's Tacitus. 

63 Niebuhr's History of Rome. 

64 O'Callaghan's History of New Netherland. 

65 Parton's Life of Jackson. 

66 Plutarch's Lives. 

67 Potter's Grecian Antiquities. 

68 Prescott's Historical Works. 

69 Ramsay's History of the United States. 

70 Randall's Life of Jefferson. 

71 Robertson's Historical Works. 

72 Russell's History of Ancient and Modern Europe. 

73 Sanderson's Biography of the Signers of the 

Declaration of Independence. 

74 Schiller's Thirty Years' War in Germany. 

75 Sears' Pictorial History of the United States, 

76 Sherman's Governmental History of the United 

States. 

77 Smith's History of New York. 

78 Smith's History of New Jersey. 

79 Southey's History of Brazil. 

80 Sparks' American Biography. 

81 Sparks' Life of Washington. 

82 Stone's Life of Sir William Johnson 

83 Taylor's Universal Llistory. 

84 Trumbull's History of Connecticut. 

85 Tytler's Universal History. 

86 Voltaire's Life of Charles XH. 

87 Voltaire's Life of Peter the Great. 



94 OEDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

88 Watson's Life of Philip IT. 

89 Watson's Life of Philip III. 

90 Wheaton's History cf the ^N'orthmen. 

91 White's Eighteen Christian Centuries. 

92 White's History of France. 

93 Williams' History of Vermont. 

94 Williamson's History of North Carolina. 

95 Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry. 

INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 

96 Abercrombie on the Intellectual Powers. 

97 Abercrombie on the Moral Feelings. 

98 Brown's Philosophy. 

99 Cousin's History of Philosophy. 

100 Hamilton's Logic. 

101 Hamilton's Metaphysics. 

102 Plickok's Rational Psychology. 

103 Hopkins' Moral Science. 

104 Locke on the Human Understanding. 

105 Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy. 

106 Reid's Philosophy. 

107 Stewart's Philosophy. 

108 Upham's Intellectual Philosophy. 

109 Wayland's Moral Philosophy. 

110 Whately's Logic. 

JURISPRUDENCE, POLITICS AND COMMERCE. 

111 Aristotle's Ethics and Politics (Gillies' trans.) 

112 Beck's Medical Jurisprudence. 

113 Bentham on Morals and Legislation. 

114 Blackstone's Commentaries. 

115 Bowen's Political Economy. 

116 Brougham's (Lord) Speeches. 

117 Calhoun's Works. 

118 Clay's Works. 

119 Cluskey's Political Text Book 

120 Constitutions of the States. 

121 Debates in the Massachusetts Convention. 



BOOKS FOS ACADEMY LIBEAEIES. 95 

122 Debates in the New York Convention. 

123 Debates in the Yirgiiiia Convention. 

124 Debates (Secret) in the Convention of the United 

States. 

125 De Tocqueville's Democracy in America. 

126 Diplomacy of the United States. 

127 Everett's America 

128 Everett's Europe. 

129 Federalist (The). 

130 Ferguson's Civil Society. 

131 Goodrich's Select British Eloquence. 

1^2 Hazlitt's Eloquence of the British Senate. 

130 Junius (Woodfall's). 

134 Kent's Commentaries. 

135 Lieber's Essays on Property and Labor. 

136 Lieber's Manual of Political Ethics. 

137 Madison Papers. 

138 Malthus on Population. 

139 Malthus on Political Economy. 

140 Martin eau's (Miss) Illustrations of Political 

Economy. 

141 McVickar's Political Economy. 

142 Mill's Political Economy. 

143 Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws. 

144 Moore's American Eloquence. 

145 Pomeroy's Introduction to Municipal Law. 

146 Puffendorf 's Law of Nature and Nations. 

147 Ricardo's Political Economy. 

148 Say's Political Economy. 

149 Smith's (Adam) Wealth of Nations (McCuUoch's 

edition.) 

150 Vattell's Law of Nations. 

151 Washington's Letters. 

152 Wayland's Political Economy. 

153 Webster's Works. 

154 Wheaton's International Law. 

155 Young's Government Class Book. 



96 OEDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

PERIODICAL AND COLLECTIVE "VrORKS. 

156 Appleton's New American Cyclopaedia 

157 Cultivator (The.) 

158 Encyclopseclia Americana. 

159 Encyclopaedia Britannica. 

160 Harpers' Classical Series. 

161 Harpers' Family Library. 

162 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. 

163 Maunder's Treasury of Knowledge. 

164 Silli^nan's Journal of Science. 

165 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. 

166 Worcester's Dictionary. 

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, NATURAL HISTORY, ETC. 

167 Arnott's Physics. 

168 Bakewell's Introduction to Geology. 

169 Beck's Botany. 

170 Beck's Chemistry. 

171 Bigelow's Technology. 

1 72 Bowditch's Navigation. 

173 Brande's Dissertation on Chemical Philosophy. 

174 Bridgewater Treatises. 

175 Burritt's Geography of the Heavens. 

176 Cambridge Course of Philosophy. 

177 Cambridge Mathematics. 

178 Cuvier's Animal Kingdom. 

179 Cuvier's Revolutions of the Globe. 

180 Cuvier's Theory of the Earth. 

181 Dana's Geology. 

182 Dana's Mineralogy. 

183 Davies' Logic of Mathematics. 

184 Davies' Mathematical Diction ar 7. 

185 Davies' Mathematical Works. 

186 Davy's (Sir Humphrey) Elements of the Philoso- 

phy of Chemistry. 

187 De la Beche's Geological Manual. 

188 Emerson's Mechanics. 



BOOKS FOE ACADEMY LIBRAEIES. 91 

189 Faraday's Physical Forces. 

190 Gibson's Surveying. 

191 Godraan's Natural History. 

192 Good's Book of Nature. 

193 Gray's Botany. 

194 Gummere's Surveying. 

1 95 Ilassler's Mathematical Tables. 

196 Johnston's Chemistry of Common Life. 

197 Keith on the Globes. 

198 Laplace's Mecanique Celeste (translated by Bow- 

ditch). 

199 Lyell's Geology. 

200 Nicholson's Natural Philosophy. 

201 Nuttall's Ornithology. 

202 Olmsted's Philosophy. 

203 Perkins' Mathematical Works. 

204 Playfair's History of Natural Philosophy. 

205 Rush on the Human Voice. 

206 Sganzin's Civil Engineering. 

207 Shepard's Mineralogy. 

208 Silliman's Chemistry. 

209 Silliman's Physics. 

210 Smellie's Philosophy of Natural History. 

211 Tyndal on Heat. 

212 LTre's Chemical and Mineralogical Dictionary. 

213 Wallace on the Globes. 

214 Wood's Botany. 

215 Yale College Mathematics. 

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL 

WORKS. 

216 American Statistical Annual. 

217 Andersson's Okovango River (Africa). 

218 Atkinson's Travels on the Amoor. 

219 Barth's Travels in North and Central Africa. 

220 Bartlett's United vStates Explorations in New 

Mexico and California. 

221 Bryant's Letters of a Traveler in Sjpain. 

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98 ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

222 Carlisle's Diary in Turkish Waters. 

223 Chateaubriand's Greece and Egypt. 

224 Colton's Atlas. 

225 Cooper's (J. F.) Residence in France. 

226 Curzon's Armenia. 

227 Du Chaillu's Equatorial Africa. 

228 Durbin's Observations in Europe. 

229 Dwight's Travels in Germany. 

230 Ellis's Madagascar, 

231 Ellis's Polynesian Researches. 

232 Ewbank's Brazil. 

233 Fisher's United States Gazetteer. 

234 French's Gazetteer of New York. 

235 Gurowski's Russia as it is. • 

236 Harpers' Gazetteer. 

237 Heber's Travels in India. 

238 Hillard's Six Months in Italy. 

239 Holton's New Granada. 

240 Hue's Travels in China. 

241 Hue's Travels in Tartary and Thibet, 

242 Humboldt's Cosmos. 

243 Jefferson's Notes on Virginia. 

244 Johnson's Atlas of the World. 

245 Kidder's Brazil. 

246 Layard's Nineveh. 

247 Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer. 

248 Lyell's Travels in the United States. 

249 Livingstone's Researches in South Africa. 

250 Mackenzie's Year in Spain. 

251 Malte Brim's Geography. 

252 Maxwell's Czar, His Court and People. 

253 Mitchell's General View of the World. 

254 National Almanac, 1863, 1864. 

255 Olmsted's (F. L.) Travels in England. 

56 Page's La Plata. 

57 Parry's Voyages for a Northwest Passage. 

58 Perry's Japan Expedition. 



BOOKS FOR ACADEMY LIBRAEIES. 99 

259 Pitkin's Statistical View of the United States. 

260 Putz's Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Geogra- 

phies. 

261 Raumer's America. 

262 Ruxton's Life in Mexico. 

263 Sargent's Arctic Adventure. 

264 Schoolcraft's Travels. 

265 Smith's Travels in Chili. 

266 Squiers' Nicaragua. 

267 Stephens' Travels in Central America. 

268 Stephens' Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land. 

269 Stiles' Austria in 1848. 

270 Thomson's The Land and the Book (Syria). 

271 Wilkes' United States Exploring Expedition. 

272 Williams' Middle Kingdom (China). 

POETRY. 

273 Beattie's Minstrel. 

274 Bryant's Poems. 

275 Cowper's Poetical Works. 

276 Dryden's Yirgil. 

277 Halleck's Poems. 

278 Longfellow's Poems. 

279 Milton's Poetical Works. 

280 Pope's Homer. 

281 Pope's Works. 

382 Shakespeare's Works. 

283 Street's Poems. 

284 Thomson's Seasons. 

285 Young's Poems. 

EDUCATIONAL. 

286 Abbott's Teacher. 

287 American Institute Lectures. 

288 Barnard's American Journal of Education. 

289 Barnard's Educational Works. 

290 Beecher's Lectures to Young Men. 

291 Calkins' Manual of Object Lessons. 



100 ORDIlSrANCES RELATIVE TO 

292 Combe's Physiology appliecl to Health and Edu- 

cation. 

293 Cousin's State of Education in Holland. 

294 Davis' Lectures on School-keeping. 

295 Hall's Education of Children. 

296 Hall's Lectures on School-keeping. 

297 Potter's School and Schoolmaster. 

298 Schmidt's History of Education. 

399 Sedgwick's Means and Ends, or Self-Training. 

300 Simpson on Popular Education^ 

801 Spencer on Education. 

302 Sprague's Lectures to Daughters. 

303 Taylor's District School. 

304 Todd's Student's Manual. 

305 Wines' Hints on Education. 

BELLES-LETTEES AND MISCELLANEOUS. 

306 Addison's Works. 

307 Alison on Taste. 

308 Andersen's (Hans) Books. 

309 Bacon's Essays. 

310 Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric. 

311 Botta's Handbook of Universal Literature. 

312 British Prose Writers. 

313 Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful. 

314 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. 

315 Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric. 

316 Chatham, Burke and Erskine. 

317 Crabbe's Synonyms. 

318 Crombie's Etymology and Syntax of the English 

Language. 

319 De Stael's Germany. 

320 D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature. 

321 Diversions of Purley. 

322 Dix's Speeches. 

323 Drake's Essays on the Spectator, etc. 

324 Dunlop's History of Roman Literature. 

325 Ellsworth on Penmanship and Letter Writing. 



BOOKS AND APPARATUS. 101 

326 Goldsmith's Works. 

327 Harris's Hermes. 

328 Irving's Works. 

329 Johnson's Works. 

330 Karnes' Elements of Criticism. 

331 Melmoth's Pliny. 

332 Newman's Rhetoric. 

333 Phillips, Curran and Grattan. 

334 Roget's Thesaurus of English Words. 

335 Rush on the Human Voice. 

336 Schonburgh Cotta Family. 

337 Sismondi's Literature of the South of Europe. 

338 St. Pierre's Studies of Nature. 

339 Swinton's Rambles Among Words 

340 Telemachus. 

341 Trench on Words. 

242 Wayland's Human Responsibility. 
343 Whately's Rhetoric. 

Apparatus. 

§ 21. Full priced catalogues of philosophical and 
chemical apparatus may be obtained of the manufac- 
turers in Albany, New York and Boston, from which 
selections for purchases may be made. When the 
funds of an academy will admit of only limited pur- 
chases, the following order is recommended : 

1. Globes, terrestrial and celestial, and maps. 

2. Instruments for surveying. 

3. Mechanical powers. 

4. Hydrostatic apparatus. 

5. Air pump and pneumatic apparatus. 

6. Electrical apparatus. 

7. Chemical api^aratus. 

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102 ORDINANCES EELATIVE TO 



CHAPTER XIII. 

BOOKS OF RECORD AND EMPLOYMENT OE TEACHERS. 

Sec. 1. The trustees of every academy shall be re- 
quired to keep in a suitable book provided for the 
purpose exact records of all their proceedings, and 
especially of the election and appointment of all 
teachers and the terms on which they are so elected 
or appointed, and of their resignation or dismission. 

§ 2. They shall also provide one or more suitable 
books for a school register, in which shall be inserted 
the names and ages of all scholars, and their average 
daily attendance during each term. 

§ 3. And also in a separate record, the names, ages 
and studies of all academic scholars, being classical 
scholars or scholars in the higher branches of English 
education, or both, with the date at which they be- 
came such scholars ; said names, ages and studies 
being arranged by the terras of each year, as required 
in the schedule of studies annexed to the annual 
report to the regents. 

§ 4. The books so required to be provided shall 
always be preserved as the property of the academy, 
and shall not be removed from its possession. 

§ 5. The regents, in their visitation of academies, 
will make it a part of their duty to examine the said 
books, to determine whether they conform to the 
requirements of this ordinance. 



BOOKS OF EECORD. 103 

§ 6. In all cases where the compeDsation of the 
teachers of any academy is made to depend on the 
amount of money received from the tuition of pupils 
or the distribution of the literature fund, as well as 
in all cases whatever, the trustees of such academy 
shall expressly reserve to themselves, and shall actu- 
ally exercise the right of employing all teachers in 
their academy, of fixing the relative proportion oi 
the compensation of the principal and the subordinate 
teachers employed by them, and of determining the 
charges for tuition ; and it shall be their duty, and 
they are hereby required to see that the relative pro- 
portion of compensation as aforesaid is absolutely 
paid to all subordinate teachers, and in no case 
where the salaries of said subordinate teachers are 
in arrears, shall their treasurer pay to the principal 
of their academy the distributive share of the litera- 
ture fund while the said salaries are in arrears, but 
shall in the proportion fixed by them as aforesaid 
apply the same to the payment of said arrears ; and 
they, the said trustees, shall state expressly in their 
annual report whether they have so reserved and 
exercised such rights as aforesaid, and protected the 
rights of subordinate teachers as required by this 
ordinance. [1864, Jan. 26.] 



104 OEDINANCES KELATIVE TO 



CHAPTER XIY. 

rOKM OF THE ANNUAL EEPOKTS OF ACADEMIES. 

To the Regents of the University of the State of New York : 

The trustees of , established at , in the county 

of 
Respectfully submit : 

That the condition of their academy on the* day of , 
187 , in respect to the several subject matters required to be 
reported on by them, was as follows : 

ACADEMIC PROPERTY. 

For a particular statement of their academic lot, building, 
library and apparatus, and for a general statement of their 
other property, and of title, incumbrances and debts, the trust- 
ees refer to their last report (or their application f) to the 
regents, bearing date on or about the day of , 187 . 

The property described in the report (or application) above 
referred to, remains, in respect to quantity, title, improvements, 
condition, value, debts, incumbrances, etc., as stated or referred 
to under the following heads : 

1. GROUND FOR ACADEMIC BUILDINGS. 

The lot of ground on which the academy buildings stand 
remains the same (except as stated below) as at the date of the 
report (or application) above referred to. 

Value of grounds as last reported $ 

The changes, if any, by purchase, improvement, sale 

or otherwise, since date of last report, are as follows : 



Increase (or diminution), if any, of value, since date 
of last report , $ 



Present value of grounds. 



* Here insert the day on which the academic year regularly terminates, 
as fixed by act of the trustees and declared on their minutes. 

tin case the academy has not heretofore made an annual report. 



FORM OF EEPOETS OF ACADEMIES. 



105 



2. ACADEMY BUHiDINGS. 

The buildings on the academy grounds remain the same 
(except as stated below) as at the date of the report (or appli- 
cation) before referred to. 

Value of buildings as last reported $ 

The changes, if any, by erection or repairs of build- 
ings, or loss by fire, decay or otherwise, since date 
of last report, are as follows : 



Increase (or diminution), if any, of value, since date 
of last report $ 

Present value of buildings $ 

Present value of lot and buildings $ 



3. ACADEMY LIBKAKY, 



Titles or names of books arranged 
according to catalogue in use. 


Number of 
volumes. 


Original 
cost. 


1 Estimated 
value. 


Reported last year 




$ 


$ 


* Added since : 


Total 




$ 


$ 





f Boohs received from the State. 

Vols, in library. 

Natural History of New York 

Documentary History 

Documents relating to Colonial History, and Index 
Meteorology of New York 

* Give a catalogue of all books and apparatus added during the year, 
with a particular list of prices, or copy of bills of purchase, inserting 
additional leaves if necessary, and enter the aggregate in the above 
tables. Add each column, and deduct the number and value of whatever 
has been damaged or lost. 

t Give a list of all books so received, and not those received the last year 
only. Duplicates are not to be counted. 



106 



ORDINANCES KELATIVE TO 



Vols, in library. 

Catalogues of the State Library 

Regents' Reports 

Reports of Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

State Cabinet Reports 

State Library Reports 

Legislative Manual (Red Book) 

University (Regents') Manual 

New York Census 

Books of Record lelonging to the Academy. 

Tlie following is a list of tbe manuscript records of tlie 
academv : * 



4. PHILOSOPHICAL APPAKATUS. 



Description or name of each article. 


Original cost. 


Estimat'd value 


Reported last year 


$ 


$ 


f Added since : 




Total 


$ 


$ 



5. CERTIFICATE OF COMMITTEE ON EXAMINATION OF LI- 
BRARY AND APPARATUS. 

The undersigned, a committee appointed by the trustees of 
for that purpose, have, since the close of the academic 
year, carefully examined the books and apparatus belonging 
to the said academy, and have compared them with the origi- 
nal catalogues or inventories, and with former examinations, 
and find the books and apparatus to be in the following con- 
dition X (Signed) A. B., 

C. D., 
Committee of Examination. 

* Here insert titles of all such books, including minutes of the trustees, 
school registers, catalogues of books and apparatus, etc., giving number 
of volumes of each. 

t See * on preceding page. 

% State the condition of the library and apparatus in regard to books 



FORM OF EEPOETS OF ACADEMIES. 107 



6. TITLE TO PROPERTY. 

The title to tlie academy lot, building, library and apparatus 
remains the same as at the date of the report or application 
before referred to, and the said property is now actually held 
by the trustees as a permanent endowment, subject to no other 
trust than that of promoting education.* 

7. OTHER ACADEMIC PROPERTY. 

The property of the academy, other than the academy lot, 
buildings, library and apparatus above described or referred to, 
consists of — 

Bonds and mortgages considered good $ 

Government securities 

Notes 

Tuition bills uncollected 

Furniture, not fixtures 

Real estate, other than academy lot, etc 

Cash in treasurer's hand, as per cash account [see 

10th head (a?) ] 

Other property, if any, not included in the above, 

described as follows : 



f Total. 



and articles being present, and in a proper state for use, and whether 
suitable rooms and cases are provided for their preservation, and due 
care exercised in their use. Give a list of books and articles lost, de- 
stroyed or injured, and state the amount of injury or loss. The committee 
must be others than the principal and teachers, and the examination not 
a mere form. Let the statement of the examination be signed by the 
committee. 

* If this statement requires any qualification, state particulars ; and 
especially if there be any trust, or understanding expressed or implied, 
that the property is in any contingency to revert to the original grantor or 

fo to other persons, or to be applied to other uses. If the property has 
een transferred, under authority of law, to a local board of education, 
to be used as the academical department of a union school, let this fact be 
distinctly stated, with the date and mode of such transfer. 

t As the footings of the Ith, 8th and 9th heads include the balance of 
the general cash account, IQth head, the latter must be completed before 
the former are added. 



108 OKDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

8. DEBTS AND INCUMBRANCES. 

The debts contracted by tlie academy, wliich remained un- 
paid on the said day of , 18 , including all arrears 
of interest, and all outstanding and unpaid accounts acknowl- 
edged as debts, were as follows : 

Mortgage on academy lot, etc $ 

Mortgage on other property 

Treasurer's notes 

Due teachers 

Balance due treasurer as per cash account [see 10th 

head (m)] 

Other debts, if any, as follows : 



* 



Total. 



9. SUMMARY STATEMENT. 

The total value of all the academic property above described 
is as follows : 
Present value of academy lot and buildings [see 2d 

head] $ 

Present value of library, consisting of volumes 

[see 3d head] 

Present value of philosophical apparatus [see 4th head] 



Value of lot, building, library and apparatus. . .$ 
Value of other property [as stated under 7th head] . . 

* Total value of all the property of the academy, $ 
Deduct for debts [as stated under 8th head] 

* Balance, showing value over and above all debts, $ 



1 



* See t on preceding page. 



FOEM OF EEPOKTS OF ACADEMIES. 109 

10. GENERAL CASH ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING ON THE 
SAID DAY OF , 187 . 

Debits. 
*{a) Balance of cash on hand at the close of the last 

previous year's account % 

Cash since received on the following account,viz. : 

(&) f For tuition 

(c) For principal on permanent or other funds. . . 
{d) For interest on do. 

{e) For room rent, or rent of academic property, 
* From the Regents of the University, viz. : 
(/) For annual apportionment of literature fund 
Ig) For educating teachers of common schools.. . 

{h) For the purchase of books and apparatus 

(i) From subscriptions for the purchase of books and 

apparatus ' 

(J) From taxes , 

{k) From income, if any, of boarding departments. . 

{],) From [here specify the source, if any, from which 

any other money was received during said year] : 



Total cash received $ 

(m) Balance due to treasurer for amounts overpaid 
by him, to be carried by him to the next year's 
account, and to the 8th head of this report 



Total debits, equal to total credits below . 



Credits. 
*(w) Balance due to the treasurer at the close of the 

last year's account % 

Cash since paid, on the following accounts : 
{o) f For salaries or compensation of teachers. . . 
(^)For principal of debts due from academy. . . . 
(g) For interest of do. .... 
(t) For repairs to buildings or other property 
belonging to the academy 

* These amounts, as shown by the treasurer's account, should agree 
with those exhibited in the last annual report of the regents (.schedules 
No8. 3, 5, Sand 12.) 

t Tn case the principal of any academy receives the tuition of pupils 
as his compensation and that of the other teachers, such amount should 
be reported to the treasurer and entered on his books as cash received 
and paid. 

10 



110 ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

(s) For fuel and all other incidental expenses not 
included in tlie above $ 

(t) For dividends, if any, to stockholders, being 
at the rate of per cent on their stock . . 

(u) For the purchase of books and apparatus 
with money granted by the Regents, or 
raised by subscription or donation, or both, 

(v) For expenses of boarding departments 

(w) For [here state the account, if any, on which 
any other money was paid during said year] 



Total cash paid $ 

(x) Balance of cash in treasurer's hands, to be car- 
ried to the next year's account, and to the 7th 
head of this report. 

Total credits, equal to total debits above ... $ 



Certificate of Auditing Committee. 

The preceding is a true statement of the receipts and pay- 
ments of money for the year above named ; which, with the 
vouchers in support thereof, having been submitted to the 
undersigned, a committee of accounts duly appointed by the 
trustees of , was on the day of , 187 , duly 

audited by them and found to be correct, and is hereby so 
certified.* (Signed) A. B., 

C. D., 
Auditing Committee. 

* The 10th Jiead, being a simple cash account, must contain entries of 
all cash actually received and paid, and nothing else. The items should 
be added up, balanced and ajidited before they are inserted in the report. 



FORM OF EEPOETS OF ACADEMIES. Ill 

11. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 
ENDING ON THE SAID DAT OF , 187 . . 

Debits.^ 

Amount of revenue accruing during said year and collected 
or considered collectible from the following sources, viz. : 
From tuition, collected or considered collectible. . . .$ 
From interest or income of property, real or personal, 

including room rent accrued during said year and 

collected or considered collectible 

From tlie Eegents of tlie University : 

For annual apportionment from the literature fund. 

For educating teachers of common schools 

For the purchase of books and apparatus 

From subscriptions for the purchase of books and 

apparatus 

From taxes 

From income of boarding departments 

From [here state any other source of annual revenue, 

if such there be] : 



Total revenue | 

Balance, being excess of expenditure over revenue 
for said year 



Total debits, equal to total credits below. 



Credits.'^ 

Amount paid or payable on liabilities incurred during said 
year on the following accounts, viz. : 

* The revenue side of the account should include only what accrued 
durincn the particular year above referred to. An}^thing received in that 
year for arrears accrued in former years should not be included : the 
object of the statement being to show the true amount of revenue ac- 
crued (whether paid or unpaid) for the particular j^ear to which it refers, 
in order to enable the regents to compare annual revenue with annual 
expenditures. 

So also of the expenditures, the account should include only what was 
paid or payable on liabilities incurred by the academy for the particular 
year mentioned in the statement. Anything paid in that year on account 
of liabilities contracted or incurred In former years should be Included 
in the general cash account, IQth head, but not in the account of revenue 
here stated ; the design of this account being to show the true amount 
of expenditures or liabilities of expenditures incurred (whether actually 
paid or not), during the particular year to which it relates, in order to 
enable the regents to compare annual expenditures with annual revenue, 
to see if the academy be falling in debt or otherwise. 

If any of the items of income or expenditure for any particular year 



112 OEDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

For salaries or compensation of teachers $ 

For interest accrued during said year on debts due 
from academy. 

For rent, if any, accrued during said year, for property 
leased to academy 

For repairs of building or other property belonging 
to the academy during said year 

For fuel and other incidental expenses incurred dur- 
ing said year 

For dividends,* if any, declared on the capital stock 
of the academy during said year, being at the rate 
of per cent on the amount of said stock , 

For the purchase of books and apparatus 

For expenses of boarding departments 

For [here state other annual expenditures, if such 
there be :] 

Total expenditures $ 

Balance, being excess of revenue over expenditure 
for said year 

Total credits, equal to total debits above $ 



12. MONET RECEIVED FROM LITERATURE FUND. 

The amount f received from the literature fund for the last 
year, as stated in the preceding part of this report, under the 
head of revenue, together with all balances, if any, of such 
moneys received in former years, and suflfered to remain on 
hand imexpended, have been expended during the last year, 
or are accounted for as follows : 



happen to be either greater or less than the average for common years, 
the case should be stated according to the fact. 

When the stockholders of any academy have acquired by the terms of 
their subscription to its stock a right to free scholarship, that fact should 
be here stated, with the number and duration of such rights, the price 
or consideration paid therefor, and the number of students attending the 
academy during said year who claimed and were allowed free tuition by 
virtue of such rights. Such students should not be considered as coming 
within the description of those receiving oratuitous instruction, and re- 
quired to be reported as such under the 20m head. 

* No academy is permitted to make dividends while any outstanding 
indebtedness against the institution exists. See Session Laws of 1859, 
chapter 426. 

t All moneys thus granted must be expended in the pajrment of teach- 
ers' salaries, and cannot be otherwise applied. 



FORM OF EEPORTS OF ACADEMIES. 



113 



13. MONEY RAISED AND GRANTED FOR THE PURCHASE OF 
BOOKS AND APPARATUS. 

Amount raised by tlie trustees $ 

Amount received from the regents (appropriated in 

January, 187 ) 

Amount previously received from the regents, and 

unexpended at the date of last report, if any 

Total ; $ 

Which has been expended as follows : 

In the purchase of books [see 3d head] $ 

In the purchase of apparatus [see 4th head] 

Total S 



14. TEACHERS. 

The number of teachers employed in said academy on the 
said day of , 187 , was as follows : 

Males 

Females 

Total 



Number who intend making teaching a profession. . . 

The names, ages and professional education of said teachers 
the time each has been engaged in teaching, the department 
of instruction and the annual salary of each are as follows :* 



Name and 
title. 



Age. 



Educated at 



Time spent in 
teaching. 



Department of 
instruction. 



Annual 
salary. 



* Let the names, etc., of all teachers employed during any part of the 
year he stated, and do not refer to preceding reports. If teachers are 
graditate^^ let this fact he stated. 



10* 



114 OEDIlSrANCES RELATIVE TO 

15. * EMPLOYMENT OF TEACHERS. 



16. SUBJECTS OF STUDY PURSUED, AND CLASS OR TEXT- 
BOOKS USED. 

The subjects of study pursued in said academy during said 
year, including classical and all others, with the class or text- 
books used in each subject of study, were as follows : f 

J. Ordinary Elementary Studies. 

Author's name. Specific title 4 

1 Arithmetic, elementary 

2 do higher 

3 Bookkeeping 

4 Composition 

5 Declamation, selections 

6 Elocution, system 

7 English language, grammar. . . .- 

8 do analysis 

9 do dictionary. . . 

10 Geography, descriptive 

11 do physical 

12 Orthography 

13 Penmanship, sytem 

14 Pronunciation, standard 

15 Reading books 

II. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy \ and their applica- 
tions. 

16 Algebra 

17 Astronomy 

18 Calculus, diiFerential 

19 do integral 

20 Conic sections 

* Under this head, if the trustees pay fixed salaries to the teachers, or 
if any contract exists by which the teachers receive the use of buildings 
and other academic property and tuition as their compensation, let the 
facts be stated; and in the latter case, state the terms of the contract 
under which they are employed, and the powers which are retained and 
exercised by the trustees, particularly in regard to the employment and 
compensation of teachers, the course of instruction and discipline, con- 
trol over buildings, etc. 

t If any study named has not been pursued, erase it. 

X Designate by its specific title any book belonging to a series by the 
game author. 

i| Electricity, hydrostatics, magnetism, mechanics and optics are in- 
cluded in natural philosophy. 



F0E5I OF EEPOETS OF ACADEMIES. 115 

Author's name. Specific title 



21 Engineering, civil 

22 Geometry, plane and solid 

23 do analytical , 

24 do descriptive 

25 Leveling 

26 Logarithms, x^rinciples. . . . 

27 Mensuration 

28 Natural philosophy 

29 Navigation 

30 Perspective 

31 Surveying 

82 Technology 

33 Trigonometry 



HI. Ancient Languages, 

34 Greek language, grammar 

35 do do exercises 

36 do reader 

37 do antiquities 

38 do prose composition 

39 Hebrew language, grammar . 

40 Latin language, grammar 

41 do do exercises 

42 do reader 

43 Roman antiquities 

44 Mythology 

IV. Modern Languages. 

45 French language, grammar. . . . 

46 German do do 

47 Italian do do 

48 Spanish do do 

V. Natural Sciencea. 

49 Anatomy 

50 Botany 

51 Chemistry 

52 Geology 

53 Hygiene , , 

54 Meteorology 

55 Mineralogy 

56 Natural history 

57 Physiology 

58 Zoology. 



116 ORDINANCES EELATIVE TO 

TT. Moral, Intellectual and Political Sciences. 

Author's name. Specific title. 

59 Criticism 

60 Cliristianity, evidences of 

61 History, general 

62 History of the United States. . . . 

63 History of literature 

64 Law and government 

65 Logic 

66 Natural theology 

67 Philosophy, intellectual 

68 Philosophy, moral 

69 Political economy 

70 Rhetoric 

71 Teaching, principles of 

72 Domestic economy 

1^" The changes of studies and text-books since last year 
(if any) were those of Nos 

17. NUMBER OF STUDENTS. 

(A) The whole number of students, including classical and 
all others, during the term (or quarter) ending on the 

day of 187 , was 

do do 187 , was 

do do 187 , was 

do do 187 , was 

Sum of attendance by terms (or quarters) 

Average attendance by terms (or quarters) 

*Average daily attendance during the year. 

(B) The whole number f of students, including classical and 
all others, taught during the year ending on the said day 
of , 187 , was , whose average age was years. 

(C) The number of academic students on the said day 
of 187 , or enrolled during part of the year ending on 

* The average daily attendance is found by dividing the whole attend- 
ance by days during the year, by the number of days during which the 
academy was actually in session ; the presence of any scholar during a 
school day, or any part thereof, being regarded as one day. 

t Insert the number of individuals taught — not the sum of those taught 
during the several terms. The same pupil must not be twice counted. 
The pupils in primary departments of union schools are not to be in 
eluded under either (A) or (B). 



FOEM OF EEPOETS OF ACADEMIES. 11 7 

that day, and who are daimed Iby the trustees to have pursued 
for four months of said year, or upward, classical studies or 
the higher branches of English education, or both, according 
to the true intent and meaning of the ordinance of the regents 
of October 20, 1853, and of July 27, 1864 {Manual, chap. XII, 
pp. 82-84), and to be entitled to be included in the next dis- 
tribution of the literature fund, is as follows : 

Males u ; Females. ... ; Total 

The following is a statement of their average age : 
Males, years ; Females, years ; General average, years. 

(D) The students so claimed are further classified as follows : 

I. Those who have passed the written preliminary academic 
examination prescribed by the regents, as heretofore certified 
by the examining committee, and who have subsequently pur- 
sued classical or higher English studies, or both, for at least 
four months of the said academic year : 

Males ; Females ; Total 

II. Those (if any) who, though not having pursued such 
studies for four months after having passed the regents' ex- 
amination, were provisionally admitted to the academic class, 
according to the provisions of the 2Ianual, chapter XII, § 4, 
pp. 88, 84, and actually passed the written examination at the 
close of the term : 

Males ; Females .... ; Total .... 

A schedule of the names, ages and studies of the students 
so claimed by the said trustees to have pursued classical studies 
or the higher branches of English education, or both, and to 
be entitled to be included in the next distribution of the litera- 
ture fund, is hereunto annexed ; and having been examined 
and certified by a committee of the trustees specially appointed 
for that purpose, and duly verified by the oath of the principal, 
as required by the law of the State and the ordinance of the 
regents, is believed by the said trustees to be true, and is 
adopted by them.* 

18. PRICES OE EATES OF TUITION. 
The prices charged for tuition, per annum, in said academy, 
during said year, were as follows : 

Common English studies % 

Mathematical and higher English 

Classical, including all the preceding 

Extra charges for tuition 

* The certiticatc of the committee aud the affidavit of the principal 
must both be executed before the schedule is adopted by the trustees. 



187 


ended 


187 , 


vacation 


weeks 


187 


do 


187 


; do 


do 


187 


do 


187 


; do 


do 


187 


do 


187 


; do 


do 



118 OEDINAI^CES EELATIYE TO 

19 GRATUITOUS INSTRUCTION. 

20. ■^ACADEMIC TERMS, VACATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS. 

Tlie academic year consists of terms (or quarters) of 

weeks eacli. There are weeks of vacation. 

First term began 
Second do do 
Third do do 
Fourth do do 

Examinations and exhibitions are held as follows : 



21. SIBIMARY STATEMENT OF THE AVERAGE EXPENSES OF 
STUDENTS FOR TUITION, BOARD, ETC., FOR A SINGLE 
ACADEMIC TEAR, OF WEEKS. 

The rates charged for the different grades of tuition, being as 
stated under No. 18, the average of those rates for a single 
student, per annum, is $ 

The average price of board in the vicinity of the 
academy for students from abroad, being at the rate 
of $ per week, amounts for a single academic 
year to 

Whole amount chargeable for tuition and board for a 
single academic year $ 

22. f PHYSICAL EDUCATION. 



S3. :{: OFFICERS of the board of trustees. 

— , President. -, Treasurer. 



, Vice-President. ■ , Secretary. 

The board consists of members, of whom consti- 

tute a quorum. 

* If the academy was not in actual session during any of the terms of 
the year, let the fact and the reason be stated. 

t Here state in particular whether any thing, and what, is done as to 
ventilation and other subjects, referred to in the appendix to the Manual 
under the head of " Physical Education." 

i Insert Christian names in full. 



POEM or REPORTS OF ACADEMIES. 



119 



The last annual meeting of the board was held on the 
day of ,187 , at which the following members were 

present : 



Other meetings of the board, during the academic year for 
which this report is made, were held on each of the following 
dates, as appears from the minutes : 



Standing Committees, other than those included under the 5t7i, 
10th and '24dh heads. 



On preliminary academic 
examination. 




On* 



24. f CERTIFICATE, ABOVE REFERRED TO, OF THE COMMITTEE 
ON THE SCHEDULE. 

. The undersigned, a committee of the trustees of 
specially appointed for that purpose, hereby certify that they 
have examined the annexed schedule of the names, ages and 
studies of the students therein named, that they have com- 
pared the same with the registers and class-books of the said 
academy, that they find the same to correspond with the said 
registers and class-books, from which it appears that all the 
scholars named in the said schedule were academic scholars, 
and pursued the studies named therein ; and that they verily 
believe that the said schedule is made in good faith, and in 
conformity to the requirements of the regents, and recommend 
its adoption by the board of trustees. 

(Signed) A. B., 

C. D., 
Committee on Schedule. 

* Here insert other (if any) important committees. 

t It having come to the knowledge of the regents that the principal of 
an academy is often directly and solely interested in the amount of money 
to he apportioned, and that the schedule is prepared hy him, and has 
sometimes heen adopted hy the trustees without examination on their 
part, the above certificate is required and must he signed by the commit- 
tee before the adoption of the report. 



120 OEDIiq-AlSrCES EELATIVE TO 

25. CONCLUSION AND AUTHENTICATION OF REPORT. 

The preceding report, from , was submitted to the 

trustees of said academy, at a meeting legally held by the 
same on the day of , 187 , at which meeting the 

following named trustees were X' resent : 



being a legal quorum of said board of trustees ; and having 
been read and approved, it was duly adopted at said meeting 
as the report of said academy, and ordered (after being verified 
by the oath of the presiding officer at said meeting, and a copy 
or abstract thereof being entered on the minutes of its pro- 
ceedings or placed among its valuable papers) to be transmitted 
to the Regents of the University, pursuant to the provisions of 
their ordinance in such case made and provided. 

All which is hereby done in obedience to said order, this 
day of , 187 . 

(Signed) , 

President of • 

26. affidavit of presiding officer op trustees. 

State op New York, ) 

County of \ **' '" 

of , in said county, being duly sworn deposes and says 

that he is one of the trustees of (whose annual report to 

the regents of the university immediately precedes this affida- 
vit) ; that he officiated as the presiding officer at the meeting of 
the trustees of said academy referred to in the concluding part 
of said report, and that the schedule hereunto annexed of the 
names, ages and studies of the students claimed as stated there- 
in, was submitted to the trustees at said meeting, duly certified 
by their committee, and verified by the oath of the principal, 
and that the statement of facts set forth in the said report is 
in all respects true, as he verily believes ; and further, that a 
copy of said report has been * 

(Signed) f , 

President of 
Subscribed and sworn before me, ) 
this day of 187 . f 

* Here state that said copy, or an abstract thereof, has been entered on 
the minute? or placed among the valuable papers of the academy, accord- 
ing to the fact. 

+ The report of the trustees and the schedule must be annexed to each 
other before this affidavit is made. 



FOEM OF EEPOETS OF ACADEMIES. 121 



27. * AFFIDAVIT OF THE PKINCIPAL. 



State of New Yore:, , 
County of ) 

of , in said county, being duly sworn, deposes and says 

tliat during the academic year ending- , 187 , he was 

principal instructor of ; that each and all of the 

scholars reported in the following schedule, referred to in the 
foregoing report of the trustees of said academy, and thereto 
annexed, before commencing the studies therein named, had 
been provisionally admitted to the academic class, according 
to the provisions of the University Manual, chapter XII, § 4, 
pp. 83, 84, or had passed the examination required by the ordi- 
nances and instructions of the regents, and were duly regis- 
tered as academic scholars on the registers of this academy, 
having also been duly certified to the regents, or held certifi- 
cates of such examination and registry in some other academy 
subject to the visitation of the said regents ; that after having 
passed the requisite examination, they pursued the studies 
named in the schedule during the period also named therein, 
and which was in no case less than thirteen weeks, except 
when provisionally admitted as aforesaid, in which case the 
regular examination was duly passed by each scholar at the 
close of the term ; that such as are claimed only as classical 
scholars have pursued all the studies required by the said 
ordinances to make them such scholars; that the preliminary 
directions accompanying the blank form of schedule have 
been carefully examined and fully complied with, and that all 
the statements contained in the said schedule, so far as the 
same are properly within the personal knowledge of this de- 
ponent as principal of the said academy, are true ; and that all 
other statements therein contained he verily believes to be 
true. 

(Signed) f -^ — , 

Principal of 

Subscribed and sworn before me,) 
this day of 187 . ) 

* In case of the death of the principal, or by other extraordinary neces- 
sity, the schedule may be prepared and the affidavit executed by some 
other teacher, or by a trustee. In such case let the cause be stated in a 
special affidavit, and also the sources from which a knowledge of the 
studies and other particulars is derived. When there have been two 
principals during the year, each should make affidavit to his own portion 
of the schedule. 

t The report of the trustees and the schedule of the principal must be 
annexed to each other before this affidavit is made. 

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122 OKDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

SCHEDULE 

OF THE PRINCIPAL OF , FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 187 

The following is the statement (referred to in the annual re- 
port from , 17th head), of the names, ages and studies of the 
academic scholars claimed by the trustees of the said academy 
to have pursued for four months or upwards of the year men- 
tioned in said report, classical studies or the higher branches 
of English education, or both, according to the true intent and 
meaning of the ordinance of the regents, as set forth in the 
Unwersity Manual, chapter XII, § 5, page 82, with a specifica- 
tion of the different studies pursued by each of said students, 
and the length of time the same were pursued in each term or 
quarter of said year, said studies being designated by the ordi- 
nary name or title of the book or treatise studied, and the part 
or portion of each book so studied being also stated, with the 
time spent in studying the sam 3 during each of said terms : 



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124 ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO 



SUMMARY AND AVERAaE OF AGES. 

Aggregate ages of all the scholars herein reported, years. 

General average 

Aggregate ages of the males 

Average 

Aggregate age of the females 

Average 

(E^^The above averages should be given in years and deci- 
mals (tenths only). 

EXERCISES IN READING, SPELLING, WRITING, ETC. 

All the students herein reported were regularly exercised as 
follows : 

In reading, as often as once in every day . 

In spelling, " " " 

In writing, " " " " 

In composition, " " " week . 

In declamation, " " " (males only). . " 

If the above needs any qualification or exception, state the 
facts, with the reasons therefor : 



EXPLANATIONS, REMARKS, ETC. 

[Here insert any further explanations, remarks, etc deemed 
important in relation to the foregoing schedule.] 



INSTRUCTION OF COMMON SCHOOL TEACHERS. 125 



CHAPTER XY. 

INSTEUCTION OF COMMON SCHOOL TEACHERS. 

Academies for the instruction of common school 
teachers, under the provisions of the statute (see 
chapter Y, § 3, pp. 38, 39), will be selected at or before 
the semi-annual meeting of the regents in August, on 
due application by the trustees in the following form : 
To the Regents of the University of the State of New York : 

The trustees of hereby apply to the Regents 

of the University for appointment to instruct a teach- 
ers' class during the academic year 187 . [The 
application should further contain answers to the fol- 
lowing questions, and be signed by the president and 
secretary of the trustees: 

1. How many townships (if any), besides your own, 
will probably be represented in a teachers' class, if 
oro^anized ? 

2. Can you rely upon the co-operation of the school 
commissioner of your district, in securing suitable 
members of the class and in visitation of the class 
during the term of instruction ? 

3. What is the probable number of suitable schol- 
ars, according to the standard prescribed in the Wni- 
versity Manual^ chapter XIY, pp. 126-130, who can 
be secured for the term ? 

4. During which third of the year (fall, winter or 
spring) will it be desii*able to instruct the class ? 

5. Will the charge of the class probably devolve 
upon the principal, or upon an assistant teacher; and 
how much time will be given daily to the special are 
separate instruction of the class ?] 

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126 ORDINANCES EELATIVE TO 

INSTRUCTIONS. 

The academies selected are required to observe the 
following instructions : 

Pupils must be selected by the joint action of the 
trustees and principal of the academy. 

They must have attained the age, if males, of 
eighteen, and if females of sixteen years. 

They must be found, on examination, to have such 
scholarship as to give fair promise, after having pur- 
sued the prescribed course of study for the time 
required by the statute, to sustain an examination for 
a commissioner's certificate. 

They should be residents of the county in which 
the academy is situated, and fairly distributed among 
the several towns. 

They must subscribe in good faith the following 
declaration : 

" We, the subscribers, hereby declare that our ob- 
ject in asking admission to the teachers' class of 
academy is to prepare ourselves more thoroughly for 
the important duty of teaching the public schools of 
the state, and that it is our intention to devote a rea- 
sonable time to that employment." 

The trustees and principal of the academy must be 
satisfied that the applicant is honest in making this 
declaration, and that he has the moral character, 
talents and aptness necessary to make a successful 
teacher. 

The following course of study and instruction is 
prescribed, and the time required by the statute must 
be wholly occupied with it : 



INSTEUCTION OF COMMON SCHOOL TEACHERS. 127 

Reading and Orthography ; 

Writing ; 

Arithmetic, Intellectual and Written ; 

English Grammar; 

Geography. 

With these studies must be combined the theory 
and practice of teaching, either by recitation from a 
text-book or by lectures ; or, which is preferable, by 
both combined. 

These subjects are to be regarded as indispensable. 
If a pupil so thoroughly understands any of them as 
to be able satisfactorily to conduct the instruction of 
a class, then one or two of the following may be 
substituted : 

Algebra, 

Geometry, 

Natural History, 

Natural Philosophy, 

History of the United States. 

Science of Government, 

Physiology. 

But in no case may a pupil be admitted to a class, 
whose education is so far advanced that it will not be 
profitable for him to spend most of his time on the 
first-named studies, and his whole time must be occu- 
pied with the studies of the course ; and in no case 
may tuition be charged for any studies jDursued. 

Instruction in the elementary parts of the several 
subjects must be of the most thorough character. 

Arithmetic must be taught both in its principles 
and its processes, by requiring a clear analysis and a 



128 ORDiisrAisrcES relative to 

neat solution of every question. The subject must be 
pursued until the ordinary school treatises, written as 
well as intellectual, are thoroughly understood. 

The teaching of English grammar must embrace 
sentential structure and analysis, and with it must be 
connected frequent exercises in composition. 

With geography must be connected map drawing 
on the black board, the use of globes, and so much 
of astronomy as will enable the pupil to explain the 
modes of ascertaining latitude and longitude, the 
change of seasons, and the cause of variation in the 
length of days and nights. 

The class must be recognized and taught as a dis- 
tinct one, and not be merged in the other classes of the 
academy. The object of the statute, the preparation 
of well-qualified teachers for the common schools, 
must be distinctly kept in view ; and it is expected 
that the trustees and principals of academies will 
realize the obligation which they assume of rendering 
a full equivalent for the liberal appropriation made 
by the state. Trustees of academies are at liberty to 
designate the term in which the instruction may be 
given, but it is deemed important that the class be 
instructed together, in one term. 

These instructions must be read to the class, at the 
commencement of the course, that they may more 
fully understand the views of the regents, and be 
urged to the highest efforts for their realization. 

The school commissioner of the district in which 
the academy is situated should be notified of the time 



INSTEUCTION" OF COMMON SCHOOL TEACHEKS. 120 

when the class is under instrnction, and invited to 
make frequent visits. 

The principal of the academy is directed, as soon as 
the class is organized, to notify the secretary of the 
regents, stating the number of pupils admitted, the 
plan of instruction, and when the examination at 
the close of the term will be held. Some member of 
the board of regents, or a committee to be appointed 
by them, will attend the examination. 

In the report to the regents on the instruction of 
the class, answers to the following questions will be 
required : 

1. Have the preceding instructions been fully ob- 
served ? 

2. What was the character of the examination for 
admission to the class ; what students on examination 
were found qualified to be advanced to higher studies; 
what was the standard of qualification, and what were 
the higher studies pursued ? 

3. Were additional teachers employed for the in- 
struction of the class, and how far was the instruction 
distinct from that of other pupils in the academy ? 

What was the method of instruction, and how fre- 
quent and protracted were the exercises in the follow- 
ing branches : 

4. Orthography — spelling, analysis of sounds, etc.? 

5. Reading — principles and practice? 

6. Penmanship — system and practice? 

7. Arithmetic — intellectual and written ? 

8. English grammar — including analysis and com- 
position ? 

9. Geography— with mapping, use of globes and 
other topics prescribed in the " Instructions." 

10. Theory and practice of teaching ? 



130 OEDINANCES EELATIYE TO 

11. How far were the pupils exercised in the in^ 
struction and government of classes ? 

12. Was the school commissioner of the district 
invited to visit the class, and did he so visit it ? 

13. Was the class examined at the close of the 
course of instruction, and if so, were any commis- 
sioners invited and did they attend ? Was the ex- 
amination oral or written ? If the latter, and by 
printed or written questions, let a copy of the ques- 
tions be annexed to the report. 

14. What pupils have received a commissioner's 
certificate, and of what grade ? 

15. What pupils have been employed as teachers 
since the instruction closed, with what success, so far 
as known, in what grade of schools, and at what 
wages ? 

16. Did any pupil pursue studies for which tuition 
was charged ? and if so, what were the studies, and 
what tuition was charged ? 

17. Were any pupils absent from the class during 
any portion of the term, and if so, when, why, and 
how long ? 

Every academy accepting the appointment will be 
understood to assent to these instructions, and ex- 
pected strictly to conform to them. 

The following is the form of report to be made to 

the reorents on the instruction of teachers' classes in 

academies : 

To the Regents of the University of the State of New Yorh : 

The trustees and principal of respecb. iiUy report : 

That during at least one-third of the academic year com- 
mencing 187 , they have instructed, free of charge, in 
the theory and practice of common-school teaching, scholars, 
of whom were males, and females. 

The undersigned further report, that each of these scholars, 
before being admitted to instruction, was found on special ex- 
amination to have made the preliminary proficiency required 



ISrSTRUCTION OP COMMOIS- SCHOOL TEACHEES. 131 

by the instructions of tlie regents, and that each subscribed, aa 
is believed in good faith, the declaration therein prescribed. 

The following is a true list of the names, ages, residences 
and studies of the scholars so instructed, with a specification 
of the studies pursued bj each scholar and the length of time 
the same were pursued, designated by the specific name or 
title of the book or treatise studied, and the part or portion of 
each book so studied, and the number of exercises or recita- 
tions in each : 



No. 



Names and residences 
of pupils. 



Ages 



Studies pursued during the 
term commencing , 

187 ; closing , 187 . 



CERTIFICATE OF THE COMMITTEE OP TRUSTEES. 

The undersigned, a committee of the trustees of 
specially appointed for that purpose, hereby certify that they 
have examined the preceding report, in regard to the instruc- 
tion and free tuition of the pupils named, and all matters 
stated therein ; that they believe all the statements therein 
made to be true, and that the instruction has been given in 
good faith, and in conformity to the aforesaid instructions of 
the Regents of the University.* 

^ ^^^® ^ c' D V (Committee. 

affidavit of the principal. 
State of New York, 

County of 

principal of , being duly sworn, deposes and says, that 
the contents of the preceding report and the statements and 
answers which follow it, are in all and every part true, so far 
as the same are properly within his personal knowledge as 
principal of said academy, and that those not properly within 
his personal knowledge as such principal, he verily believes 
to be true. (Signed) , 



ss. 



Subscribed 
this 



and sworn 
day of 



Principal of 
before me, 

, 187 



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* If the committee on the report attended the examination of the 
class, let it be so stated. 



132 ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

CONCLUSION AND AUTHENTICATION OF EEPORT. 

At a meeting of the trustees of , legally held hj them 

on the day of , 187 , at which meeting the follow- 

ing named trustees were present, viz. 

the preceding report was submitted, together with the annexed 
certificate of the committee specially appointed to examine the 
same, and having been read and approved, it was duly adopted 
at said meeting as the report of said academy on the instruc- 
tion of common-school teachers, and ordered (after being veri- 
fied by the oath of the presiding officer of said meeting and 
recorded on the minutes of its proceedings) to be transmitted 
to the Regents of the University, pursuant to the provisions 
of their ordinance in such case made and provided. 

All of which is hereby done in obedience to said order, this 

day of 187 . (Signed) , 

President of 
State of New York,) . 

County of ) ' ' 

being duly sworn, deposes and says, that he officiated as the 
presiding officer of the board of trustees of , at the 

meeting above referred to, and that the statements contained 
in the preceding report he believes to be in all respects true. 

(Signed) , 

President of 
Subscribed and sworn before me, ) 

this day of , 187 . J" 

The appropriation of moneys for the instruction 
of common-school teachers will be made at the annual 
meeting of the regents subsequent to the academic 
year in which the instruction was given. 

Form of a draft for money appropriated to an acad- 
emy for the instruction of common-school teachers : 

To the Treasurer of the State of New York : 

Pay to the order of th^ amount of money appropriated 
in January, 187 , to , by the Regents of the University, 
for the instruction of common-school teachers in said academy. 
(Signed) , 

Dated at 187 . Treasurer of 

[This draft must be accompanied by a certificate 
in the form given on page 85.] 



FOEM OF KEPOETS OF COLLEGES. 133 



CHAPTER XYI. 

FOEM OF THE ANNUAL EEPOETS OF COLLEGES. 

I. LITERARY COLLEGES. ' 

To the Begents of the JJnvoersity of the State of JVeto York : 

The trustees of college, in compliance with a 

requisition of the Regents of the University, submit 
the following report for the last collegiate year, end- 
ing on the day of ? IS*^ ? heing the day of 
the annual commencement, containing a just and true 
statement of facts showing the progress and condi- 
tion of said college, during and at the close of said 
year, in respect to the several subject matters follow- 
ing, viz. : 

1. Number and description of Professorships. 

The professorships in said college during said year, 
as established by the trustees, were the following : 
[Here state each professorship, as known and defined 
by the statutes of the college ; and if any profes- 
sorship be vacant, state the fact of such vacancy, when 
and from what cause it occurred, and whether it is 
the intention of the trustees to fill the same, and when.] 

2. Trustees^ Faculty and other College Officers. 

The following is a list of the trustees of the college , 
with their respective places of residence : 



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134 



OEDINAIs^CES RELATIVE TO 



The last annual meeting of the board was held on 
the day of , 187 , at which the following 

trustees were present, viz. 



Other meetings were held during the year on the 
following days : 



The faculty of said college, including all persons 
charged with the duty of giving instruction therein 
during said year, consisted of a president, etc. [Here 
state the number of professors, tutors, etc.] 

The other officers or servants of said college, 
charged with duties therein, other than those of pub- 
lic instruction, during said year, were : [Here state 
the number of officers, with a description of their 
respective offices, etc.] 

The names of the several persons holding offices or 
places in said college during said year, with the offices 
or places held by them respectively, and the salaries 
or annual compensation for official services allowed 
to each of them, were as follows : 



Names of persons. 



Professorship or 
other office held. 



Salary. 



POEM OF EEPOETS OF COLLEGES. 135 

3. Number of Students. 

The whole number of students, undergraduates in 
said college, during said year, was: [Here state first 
the whole number of such students, including as well 
those who left college during said year, as those who 
remained to the close of it; and includmg, also, as 
well those, if any, who were ''eceived on probation, 
as those who were regularly matriculated ; and then 
state the number who left college during the year, 
from any and what cause, if known, with the number 
remaining at the close of the year ; including as well 
the seniors or graduates of that year, as others.] 

The number of graduates at the annual commence- 
ment held on the day of , 187 , was 

The whole number of graduates of the college 
is 

[The number of students, if any, in said college, 
during said year, who were not undergraduates, 
should be here stated, with such description or desig- 
nation as properly belongs to them. 

Under this head, state the number of students who 
were absent from college during the year, and from 
what cause. State the number engaged in teaching, 
and the intended occupation of the graduates. 

State the maximum, the minimum and the average 
age of the undergraduates, and also of the graduates.] 

4. Classification of Students. 

The students who were undergraduates in said col- 
lege, during said year, were classified as follows, viz. : 



136 OEDINAliTCES EELATIVE TO 

[Here state the number and names of the classes, and 
the number of the students in each class. 

If there be classes in the college under any other 
than the common designation of freshmen, sopho- 
mores, juniors and seniors, the fact should be partic- 
ularly stated, with the number and pursuits of the 
students in such classes. So, also, if there be students 
not coming under the designation of undergraduates, 
such as students in theology, and law, their classi- 
fication, and whether they are graduates, should be 
here stated.] 

5. Gommencement JEJxercises. 

The following is a copy of the scheme of the last 
Commencement : 



The degrees conferred were as follows : 

(1) Degrees in course, A. B., A. M., etc. [Give 
names.] 

(2) Honorary degrees, LL. D., D. D., etc. [Give 
names.] 

6. College Terms or Sessions. 

The terms or sessions for studies in said college, 
during said year, were the following : [Here state the 
number of terms, the length of each, when it com- 
menced and ended, how much vacation there was 
during said year, and the day of the annual commence- 
ment.] 

The following is a copy of the calendar for the 
next collegiate year : 



FOEM OF KEPOETS OF COLLEGES. 137 

7. Subjects or Course of Study. 

The subgraduate course of study in each class in 
said college, during said year, was as follows : [Here 
state the course of each class, beginning with the 
freshmen, for each term in the year, beginning with 
the first term, designating in each term, specifically, 
the subjects studied by each class, the text-books used, 
and the extent to which each subject was studied, 
specifying such extent by the number of pages, or 
proportion of the text-books studied, or by other suit- 
able description ; and if lectures be given to the class 
during said term on any subject, designate such sub- 
ject, with the number and frequency of the lectures 
on it, and the part or proportion they constitute of 
a full course of lectures on such subject. 

If subjects of study be pursued in the college which 
are not subgraduate, either by reason of their not 
being strictly classical, such as a particular or partial 
course in mathematics, etc., or by reason of their 
being superior to a subgraduate course, such as the- 
ology, law or medicine, the same designation should 
be given of the particular subject studied, the text- 
books used, extent of study pursued, lectures, etc., 
in each class during each term, etc.] 

8. Exercises. 

[Under this head, state how often the students in 
the college were exercised during said year, in -com- 
position and declamation, in the English language, or 
in any other and what language, and what criticism 
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138 ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

such exercises were subjected to ; also, whether any 
other exercises were required of and performed by 
them during said year, such as extemporaneous speak- 
ing or debating, gymnastic or military exercises, etc.; 
also, how far exercises in reading or in any other of 
the primary arts connected with education were re- 
quired during said year.] 

9. Mthibitions and Prize Contests. 

[State what public exhibitions are held, and when ; 
also, what prizes are established, how they are award- 
ed, and give the names of the successful competitors. 
When prizes are awarded on examination, state 
whether the examination is oral or written, and if the 
latter, send a copy of the written or printed topics 
or questions.] 

1 0. Examinations. 
The requirements for admission, as published in the 
Annual Catalogue, are as follows : 



[State when the entrance examination is held, and 
its character, whether the published requirements are 
adhered to, and whether the scholars who are found 
deficient are refused admission, or are admitted on 
probation or condition. 

Stkte the number of public examinations in the 
college during said year, when and how long each 
one was held, and how conducted ; whether all the 



FORM OF EEPOETS OF COLLEGES, 139 

classes were examined in all the subjects of study 
pursued by them subsequent to the last previous ex- 
amination ; if not, what were the omissions and for 
what cause ; also, what influence examinations have 
on the standing of the student in his class, and on 
his graduation.] 

11. Mode of Instruction. 

[Under this head, state what was the general method 
of instruction adopted in the college during said year, 
whether that of analysis and recitations from text- 
boohs^ or that of lectures^ or both, and in what relative 
proportion. If lectures were given, state on what 
subjects, whether the students were required to take 
notes of them, and what test was applied to ascertain 
the extent of knowledge acquired by them from such 
lectures ; also, state how often, on an average, the 
students were required to recite, or attend lectures.] 

12. Discipline. 

[Under this head, state the general principles of 
discipline adopted in the college, during said year ; 
what was the general nature of any punishments in- 
flicted ; whether any and what discrimination of the 
relative merits of students was made, either in respect 
to scholarship or behavior, or both, and what evi- 
dence of such merits was preserved or made public. 
If the standing of students in scholarship and con- 
duct is determined by daily records, let the system 
be given and its results stated.] 



140 ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

13. Gratuitous Aid. 
[Under this head, state what provision is made in 
the college for the gratuitous education of indigent 
students, or for any other assistance to such students, 
what number of students during said year were edu- 
cated in whole or in part, gratuitously, or otherwise 
assisted.] 

14. Statutes or Bif-Laios of the College. 

[The foregoing form of a collegiate report requires 
each college to state, specifically, what was actually 
done in the college, during the collegiate year, in 
reference to the most important subject matters of its 
proceedings, 

A copy of the statutes or by-laws of the college, 
as the same were in force, during said year, should be 
transmitted with the collegiate annual report, that it 
may be seen what is required by such statutes. But 
if a copy of said by-laws has already been sent, a 
copy need not be transmitted with subsequent re- 
ports, provided the alterations, if any, in the by-laws 
first sent, be noted, etc.] 

15. Description and Vcdue of buildings, etc. 

[Under this head, state : 

(l) The number, general extent and value of the 
college buildings and grounds appurtenant thereto. 
, (2) The number of books in the college library, 
with their general state of preservation, and estimate 
of value in the aggregate. 



FORM OF REPORTS OF COLLEGES 141 

(3) A general description of chemical and philo- 
Bophical apparatus, etc., belonging to the college 
(without designating particulars), with an estimate 
of their aggregate value. 

State the total amount of the above values, to 
show the whole amount in value of the college prop- 
erty used as permanent or fixed capital, for purposes 
of instruction, etc.] 

16. Description and Value of other College Property. 

[Under this head, give a general description and 
valuation of the property and funds of the college, 
other than what is included under the last preceding 
head, distinguishing real from personal j^roperty, and 
stating the different kinds of personal property, such 
as bonds and mortgages, bank and other stock, etc., 
giving the general amount and value of each kind of 
property ; and if any of the college funds be appro- 
priated for any particular purpose, as for the endow- 
ment of professorships, scholarships and prizes, or 
are required to be kept invested in any particular 
manner, state the amount of such funds, and whether 
they are applied to such purpose, or are invested in 
the manner required. 

State, in one sum, the total estimated value of all 
the property described under this general head, after 
making all proper deductions for depreciation, insuf- 
ficient securities, etc.] 



142 OEDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

17. BeUs. 

[State the whole amount of debts contracted by the 
trustees of the college, and remaining unpaid at the 
close of the last collegiate year ; and if any debts 
were contracted during said year, state for what 
cause or on what account they were contracted, and 
state, also, the amount of interest accrued on said 
debts for said year.] 

18. Revenue,^ 

The amount of revenue for the said year was as 
follows : 

(1) Amount charged for tuition of students 
during said year, which has been collected 
or is considered collectible % 

(2) Amount charged for room rent of stu- 
dents, use of library, etc., during said year, 
which has been collected or is considered 
collectible 

(.'^) Interest or income of the permanent fund 
of the college, accrued during said year. 



* The revenue and expenditure account should include only 
what accrued and was expended during the particular year 
referred to. Any thing received or expended in that year for 
arrears of former years should not be included, the object of 
the statement being to show the true amount of revenue and 
expenditure (whether paid or unpaid) for the particular year 
to which it refers, in order to enable the regents to compare 
annual revenue with annual expenditure. 



rOEM_Or REPORTS OF COLLEGES. 143 

which has been collected or is considered 

collectible $ 

(4) Income from any other and what som'ce . . 

Total revenue I 

19. Expenditure. 

The liabilities incurred during the said year were 
as follows : 

(1) Salaries % 

(2) Interest accrued during the year on debts 
due from the college 

(3) Repairs of college property 

(4) Fuel and all other incidental expenses . . . 

Total expenditure % 



20. Tabular Statement. 

Number of collegiate departments or courses 
of study . . . 

Number of professors 

Number of tutors, etc 

Number of collegiate students (exclusive or 
medical), during- the last year 

Njimber of graduates (in each department or 
course), at last commencement 

Whole number of graduates (in each depart- 
ment or course) 

Value of college buildings and grounds 

Value of library and apparatus 

Value of other college property ............ 



144 OEDINAISrCES RELATIVE TO 

Revenue for the last collegiate year $ 

Expenditure for the last collegiate year 

Amount of debts (if any) of the college 

21. Price of Tuitioyi. 
[Under this head, state the particular prices charged 
for tuition, room rent and contingent expenses ; also, 
a general estimate of all other necessary annual ex- 
penses of a student in said college.] 

22. Remarks. 
[Under this head may be made any remarks which 
tne trustees have to oifer on any of the foregoing 
topics ; also, any suggestions which the trustees or 
faculty of the college may think proper to submit, 
on any subject connected with their particular insti- 
tution, or with the general cause of education.] 

23. Close of Report. 
[As the annual report of the college must be made 
by or under the authority of its trustees, it will be 
necessary to state, affirmatively, at the close of the 
report, on what authority it is made, etc. If it be 
made by the trustees at a regular meeting held by 
them (which would be the most regular way), it 
should be signed by the presiding officer of the board 
of trustees, for and in their behalf, and the seal of 
the college should be affixed to it. If the report be 
made by a committee of the board of trustees, ap- 
pointed especially for that purpose, it should be signed 



FOEM OP EEPOETS OF COLLEGES. 145 

by such committee in behalf of the trustees, and their 
appointment to make the report should be expressly 
stated. In either case, the treasurer and secretary 
of the college should subscribe the report, affix or 
impress the corporate seal on it, etc.] * 

n. MEDICAL COLLEGES, OR MEDICAL DEPARTMENTS OP 
LITERARY COLLEGES. 

To the Regents of the University of the State of New York : 

The trustees of college, in compliance with a 

requisition of the Regents of the University, submit 
the following report for the last collegiate year, end- 
ing on the day of , 18*7 , containing a just 
and true statement of facts showing the progress 
and condition of said college (or the medical depart- 
ment of said college), during and at the close of said 
year, in respect to the several subject matters follow- 
ing, viz. : 

1. Number and Description of Professorships. 
The professorships in said college (or in the medical 
department of said college), during said year, as es- 
tablished by the trustees, were the following : [Here 
state each professorship, as known and defined by the 
statutes of the college ; and if any professorship be 
vacant, state the fact of such vacancy, when and from 
what cause it occurred, and whether it is the inten- 
tion of the trustees to fill the same, and when.] 

* Copies of the annual and triennial catalogues, and of any 
other college publications, should be sent, at the time of their 
issue, to the office of the Regents. 
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146 



OKDIjSrANCES RELATIVE TO 



2. Tfustees^ Faculty and other College Officers. 

The following are the names and residences of the 
trustees of said college : [In case of a medical depart- 
ment only, under the same trustees as the college 
proper, this list may be omitted.] 

The faculty of said college (or of the medical de- 
partment of said college), including all persons 
charged with the duty of giving public instruction 
therein, during said year, consisted of a president, etc. 
[Here state the number of professors, tutors, etc.] 

The other officers or servants of said college (or of 
the medical department of said college), charged with 
duties therein other than those of public instruction, 
during said year, were : [Here state the number of 
such officers, with a description of their respective 
offices, etc.] 

The names of the several persons holding offices or 
places in said college (or in the medical department 
of said college), during said year, with the offices or 
places held by them respectively, and the salaries or 
annual compensation for official services allowed to 
each of them, were as follows : 



Names of persons. 



Professorship or 
other office held. 



salary. 



FORM OF EEPOETS OF COLLEGES. 147 

3. JSPiimher of Students. 

The whole number of students attending the regu- 
lar course of instruction during said year was 

The number of graduates at the last annual com- 
mencement, held ,187 , was 

The whole number of graduates in medicine is 

The ages of the graduates being required by law to 
be 21 years, none have been admitted to the degree 
under that age. The average age of the graduates 
at the last commencement was years. 

4. Classification of Students. 
The students attending said college (or medical 
department) are classified as follows: 

ISTumber attending their first course of lectures . 
" " second " 

5. College Term or Session. 

The term or session for study in said college (or 
the medical department of said college), during said 
year, was the following : [Here state the length of 
the term, giving dates.] 

The next college term or session will com- 
mence ,187 , and close ,187 . 

6. Mode of Instruction. 
[Under this head, state what was the general pro- 
cess of instruction adopted in the college (or the 
medical department of said college), during said year, 



148 OEDINANCES RELATIVE TO 

whether that of analysis and recitation from text- 
hooks^ or that of public lectures^ or both, and in what 
relative proportions. If public lectures were given, 
state on what subjects, whether the students were 
required to take notes of them, and what test was 
applied to ascertain the extent of knowledge acquired 
by them from such lectures; also, state how often on 
an average the students were required to recite, or 

attend lectures.] 

7. Discipline. 

[Under this head, state the general principles of 
discipline adopted in the college, (or the medical 
department of said college), during said year; what 
was the general nature of any punishment inflicted;, 
whether any and what discrimination of the relative 
merits of students was made, either in respect to 
scholarship or behavior, or both, and what evidence 
of such merits was preserved or made public] 

8. Gratuitous Aid. 
[Under this head, state what provision is made m 
the college (or the medical department of said college), 
for the gratuitous education of indigent students, or 
for any other assistance to such students ; what num 
ber of students during said year were educated in 
whole or in part, gratuitously, or otherwise assisted 
out of such funds, or in any other manner. 

9. Statutes or By-laws of the College. 
[The foregoing form of a collegiate report requires 
each college to state in its annual report, specifically, 



FOEM OF EEPOETS OF COLLEGES. 149 

what was actually done in the college during its last 
collegiate year, in reference to the most important 
subject-matters of its proceedings, during that year. 
A copy of the statutes or by-laws of the college 
should be transmitted with the first collegiate annual 
report made to the Regents of the University, that 
it may be seen what was required by such statutes. 
But after the first annual report, made in pursuance 
of these instructions, and accompanied with a copy of 
said by-laws, a second copy need not be transmitted 
with subsequent rej^orts, provided the alterations, if 
any, in the by-laws first sent, be noted, etc.] 

10. Examinations and Graduation. 

[State the conditions of admission and the character 
of the examination for graduation, how much time it 
occupies, whether it is held before the whole faculty, 
or a committee, or individual professors, and whether 
censors, not of the faculty, are associated with them. 
State whether the examination is oral, or by written 
or printed questions or topics, and if the latter, annex 
a copy to the report. State, also, the influence which 
examination has on graduation.] 

11. Description and J%hie of Buildings^ etc. 
[Under this head, state : 

(1) The number, general extent and value of the 
college buildings and grounds appurtenant thereto. 

(2) The number of books in the college library, 

their general condition as to preservation, and an 

estimate of their aggregate value. 
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150 OEDINANCES EELATIYE TO 

(3) A general description of chemical and philo- 
sophical apparatus, etc., belonging to the college 
(without designating particulars), with an estimate 
of their aggregate value. 

State the total amount of the above values, to show 
the whole amount in value of the college property 
used as permanent or fixed capital for purposes of 
instruction, etc.] 

12. Description and Value of other College Property, 
[Under this head, give a general description and 
valuation of the property and funds of the college, 
other than what is included under the preceding head, 
distinguishing real from personal property, and stat- 
ing the different kinds of personal property, such as 
bonds and mortgages, bank and other stocks, etc., 
giving the general amount and value of each kind 
of property; and if any of the college funds be ap- 
propriated for any particular purpose, or are required 
to be kept invested in any particular manner, state 
the amount of such funds, and whether they are ap- 
plied to such purpose, or are invested in the manner 
required. 

State in one sum, the total estimated value of all 
the property described under this general head, after 
making all proper deductions for depreciation, insuf- 
ficient securities, etc.] 

13. Debts. 
[State the whole amount of debts contracted by the 
trustees of the college, and remaining unpaid at the 



FOEM OF EEPOETS OF COLLEGES. 151 

close of the last collegiate year ; and if any debts 
were contracted during said year, state for what 
cause or on what account they were contracted ; and 
state also the amount of interest accrued on said 
debts for said year.] 

14. Revenue. 

(1) Amount collected or considered collectible, 
during said year, on account of — 

Matriculation fees % 

Graduation fees 

(2) Interest or income of funds, or rents of 
buildings accrued during said year, col- 
lected or considered collectible 

(3) Income from any other and what source . . 

Total amount of revenue % 

15. Expenditure. 
Amount paid or payable on liabilities incurred 
daring said year, on the following accounts : 

(1) For interest during said year on debts due 
from the college - % 

(2) For repairs of college property 

(3) For all incidental expenses not included in 
above 

Total amount of expenditure % 

16. Fees. 
Matriculation fee % 

Graduation fee 

Full course of lectures 



152 OEDINA.NCES KELATIVE TO 

17. Tabular Statement. 

Number of professors . 

ISTumber of lecturers, etc 

ISTumber of students during the last year .... 
Number of graduates during the last year. . . 

Whole number of graduates 

Value of college buildings and grounds . . . .% 

Value of library and apparatus 

Amount of matriculation fees received during 

the last year 

Amount of graduation fees received during 

the last year 

Total revenue during the year 

Total expenditure during the year 

Amount of debts (if any) of the college 

18. HemarJcs. 
[Under this head may be inserted any remarks 
which the trustees have to make on any of the fore- 
going topics ; also, any suggestions which the trustees 
or faculty of the college may think proper to submit, 
on any subject connected with their particular institu- 
tion, or with the general cause of medical education.] 

19. Close of Report. 

[As the annual report of the college must be made 
by or under the authority of its trustees, it will be 
necessary to state, affirmatively, at the close of the 
report, on what authority it is made, etc. If it be 
made by the trustees at a regular meeting held by 



rORM OF KEPOKTS OF COLLEGES. 153 

them (which would be the most regular way), it 
should be signed by the presiding officer of the board 
of trustees, for and in their behalf, and the seal of the 
college should be affixed to it. If the report be made 
by a committee of the board of trustees, appointed 
especially for that purpose, it should be signed by 
such committee in behalf of the trustees, and their 
appointment to make the report should be expressly 
stated. In either case, the treasurer and secretary 
of the college should subscribe the report, and affix 
or impress the corporate seal, etc.] * 



* Copies of all catalogues, announcements, etc., should be 
sent, at the time of their issue, to the office of the Regents. 



154 EESOLUTIONS RELATIVE TO 



CHAPTER XVII. 

MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTIONS, DEGREES, ETC. 

§ 1. The regents will hold two general business ses- 
sions annually, the first to commence with the annual 
meeting prescribed by law, and the other to be held 
at the time of the University Convocation, on or 
about the first Tuesday of August ; each of said ses- 
sions shall be continued by daily adjournments during 
at least one week ; and at each of said meetings all 
business of the board shall be in order, and, as far as 
is consistent with the public interest, all business 
shall be transacted at such meetings. [HesoluHon 
of Jan. 15, 1864.] 

8 2. The standing^ comfnittees of this board whose 
services are needed in preparing reports for the annual 
meeting of each year, shall be duly notified by the 
secretary that their attendance is due on the morning 
of the second Thursday of January, this being the 
day fixed by law for the annual meeting. \^Iiesolution 
of Jan, 10, 1868.] 

§ 3. Whenever, in any academy, the school has been 
suspended, annual reports shall be required from the 
trustees as to the condition of the property of the 
same, with a statement of the reasons why instruction 
has been suspended. \Resolution of Jan. 12, 1866.] 



HONOEAEY DEGREES. 155 

Honorary Degrees: 

§ 4. All applications or recommendations for hon- 
orary degrees to be granted by the Board of Regents 
shall be in writing, and shall bear the signature of at 
least two regents, as approving, recommending or 
offering the same. [Resolution of Oct. 14, 1851.] 

§ 5. All nominations for degrees shall be referred 
to the committee on degrees ; but no such nomination 
shall be acted on until at least one month after it 
shall have been made. [Resolution of July 9, 1857.] 

§ 6. The following is a list of the honorary degrees 
thus far conferred by the Regents of the University : 

Doctor of Laws. (LL. D.) 

1792. Robert R. Livingston. 

William Patterson. 
1829. William Alexander Duer. 
1834. Benjamin Franklin Butler. 
1844. William Learned Marcy. 

1849. Alexander H. Stevens. 
Harvey Prindle Peet. 
Salem Town. 

1850. Joseph Henry. 

1851. Valentine Mott. 
1854. John McLean, D. D. 
1857. Mark Hopkins, D. D. 

Doctor of Literature. (L. H. D.) 

1864. George Ticknor. 
John Lothrop Motley. 

1865. Charles Murray Nairne. 

1869. Benjamin Nicholas Martin, D. D. 
Edward North. 



156 EESOLUTIONS RELATIVE TO 

1870. Goldwin Smith. 

William Cullen Bryant. 
Horatio Seymour. 



Doctor of Philosophy. (Pli. D.) 
1860. Philip P. Carpenter. 
1862. David Henry Cochran. 

1864. David Murray. 

1865. Alonzo Crittenden. 

1869. Koah Turner Clarke. 
Malcolm Mc Vicar. 

1870. Emerson John Hamilton. 
Joel Dorman Steele. 



Doctor of Medicine. (M. D.) 

1812. Oliver C. Comstock. 
William Kirkpatrick. 
Andrew Morton. 
Alexander Sheldon. 
John Augustus Smith. 
John Stearns. 
David B. Warden. 
Joseph White. 
Westel Willoughby, Jr. 

1816. Thomas Cooper. 

1817. John D. Jacques. 
1819. Richard Davidson. 

William H. Richardson. 
John Van Cleve. 

1828. Luther Riley. 

1829. Lewis Phoenix. 
1832. Christopher C. Yates. 
1847. Louis Agassiz. 

William Farr. 
Henry Marshall. 



HONOEAET DEGREES. 157 

Also, on the nomination of the State Medical 
Society : 

1827. Jonathan Eights. 
Thomas Fuller. 
Laurens Hull. 
John Onderdonk. 
Gain Robinson. 
James Stevenson. 

1828. Thomas Broadhead. 
Eleazer Gedney. 
John D, Henry. 

1829. Daniel Ayres. 
Joseph G. T. Hunt. 
Henry H. Sherwood. 
John H. Steele. 

1830. Enos Barnes. 
Consider King. 
Matson Smith. 
Charles D. Townsend. 

1831. Thomas Dunlap. 
John Ely. 
John McClellan. 
Samuel Porter. 

1832. Fayette Cooper. 
Thomas O. H. CroswelL 
Alpheus S. Greene. 
Lucius Kellogg. 
George W. Phillips. 

1833. Robert Collins. 
George Eager. 
Joshua Lee. 
Benjamin J. Mooers. 
Asahel Prior. 

• Joshua Trowbridge. 

1834. Harvey W. Doolittle. 
Asa Fitch. 

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155 RESOLUTIONS RELATIVE TO 

1841. Richard S. Bryan. 
Claudius C. Coan. 
John Merriam. 
Henry B. Moore. 

1842. William C. De Witt. 
Levi Farr. 
Thomas Goodsell. 
Lester Jewett. 

1844. Matthias B. Bellows. 
Samuel Maxwell. 
William W. Miner. 
Peter Van O'Linda. 

1845. William Mason. 
Andrew F. Oliver. 
Samuel Shumway. 
Bartow White. 

1846. George W. Bradford. 
Ithamar B. Crawe. 
Truman B. Hicks. 
Greene Miller. 

1847. Caleb Bannister. 
Pelatiah B. Brooks. 
Hiram Corliss. 
John W. Weed. 

1848. Benjamin E. Bowen. 
Eliphalet Piatt. 
George C. SchefFer. 
Joshua Webster. 

1849. Arba Blair. 
William D. Purple. 
John W. Riggs. 
Lewis Riggs. 

1850. Patrick W. Hard. 
Nathaniel Miller, 
James Thorn. 
John E. Todd. 

1851. Phineas H. Burbeck. 



HOXORAEY DEGREES. 159 

1851. Purcell Cook. 
Heman Norton. 

1852. Abel Brace. 
Abel Huntington. 
Erastus King. 
Mason G. Smith. 

1854. Sardius Brewster. 
John W. Hinckley. 
Elias P. Metcalf. 
Jacob G. Snell. 

1855. Edson Carr. 
Alonzo Churchill. 
Jonathan Kne eland. 
James L. Phelps. 

1856. Hiram Adams. 
Medina Preston. 
Samuel J. Swalm. 
Silas West. 

1857. Millen Barnes. 
Daniel H. Bissell. 
William S. Norton. 
Hiram Watkins. 

1858. William S. Appley. 
Nelson S. Garrison. 
James Hogeboom. 
William Rockwell. 

1859. Merritt H. Clark. 
Richard Lanning. 
Peter P. Staats. 
James M. Sturdevant. 

1860. Francis J. D' Avignon. 
Peter Moulton. 
Harrison Teller. 

1861. Charles G. Bacon. 
Charles Barrows. 

1864. R. Spencer Chapin. 
Leonard G. Warren. 



160 RESOLUTIONS RELATIVE TO 

1865. Ferris Jacobs. 

Richard L. Satterlee. 
1867. John Van Ness. 
1869. Lewis Post. 



And on the nomination of the Homoeopathic State 
Medical Society : 

1865. Frederick F. Stamm. 
1869. Oliver E. Noble. 

Ira C. Owen. 

Stephen D. Sherman. 



University Convocation. 

§ V. The members of the University Convocation 
shall embrace — 

(1) The members of the Board of Regents. 

(2) All instructors in colleges, normal schools, 
academies, and higher departments of public schools 
that are subject to the visitation of the regents, and 
[by amendment of 1868] the trustees of all such insti- 
tutions. 

(3) The president, first vice-president, and the 
recording and corresponding secretaries of the New 
York State Teachers' Association. 

§ 8. The chancellor and secretary of the Board of 
Regents shall act severally as the presiding officer 
and permanent secretary of the Convocation. 

§ 9. The meeting of this Convocation shall be held 
annually in the city of Albany, on the first Tuesday 



UNIVERSITY CONVOCATIOlSr. 161 

of August, at ten o'clock a. m., unless otherwise 
appointed by the Board of Regents. 

§ 10. At each annual Convocation, the chancellor 
shall announce the appointment, by the regents, of 
an executive committee of seven members, who shall 
meet during the recess of the Convocation, at such 
time and place as the regents may direct, with au- 
thority to transact business connected with its general 
object. [Resolutions of University Convocation^ 
Aug. 5, 1863.] 

§ 11. There shall be appointed by the chancellor, 
at each annual meeting, a committee of necrology, 
to consist of three persons. 

§ 12. It shall be the duty of each member of the 
Convocation, to notify the chairman of the committee 
of necrology of the decease of members occurring in 
their immediate neighborhood or circle of acquaint- 
ance, as an assistance to the preparation of their 
report. 

§ 13. The secretary shall publish, with the report 
of each year's proceedings, the original resolutions 
of 1863, as they are or may be from time to time 
amended, together with the two foregoing, as a means 
of better informing the members of the Convocation 
in regard to its nature, and the purposes of its organ- 
ization. [JResolutions of University Convocation^ 
Aug. 5, 1868.] 



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162 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 



P»ART III. 

INSTITUTION AND ORGANIZATION OF THE UNIVER. 
SITY OF THE STATE OF NEW TORK. 



CHAPTER XVin. 

LEGISLATIVE ACTS. 

[The following are the original acts instituting the 
University of the State of Kew York. Though they 
have been revised and amended, and are therBfore not 
now in full force, tkey are here inserted as interesting 
historical records.] 

An Act for granting certain Privileges to the College 

HERETOFORE CALLED KiNG'S COLLEGE, FOR ALTERING THE 

Name and Charter thereof, and erecting an Uni- 
versity WITHIN THIS State. 

Passed the 1st day of May, 1784. 

Whereas by Letters Patent under the Great Seal 
of the late Colony of New- York, bearing Date the 
thirty-first Day of October, in the twenty-eighth 
Year of the Reign of George the Second, the King 
of Great-Britain, a certain Body Politic and Corpo- 
rate, was created by the Name of the Governors of the 
College of the Province of New- York, in the City of 



UNIVEESITY OF STATE OF NEW TOEK. 163 

New- York in America, with divers Privileges, Capa- 
cities and Immunities, as in and by the said Patent 
will more fully appear. 

And lohereas there are many Vacancies in the said 
Corporation, occasioned by the Death or Absence of 
a great Number of the Governors of the said College, 
whereby the Succession is so greatly broke in upon 
as to require the Interposition of the Legislature. 

And lohereas the remaining Governors of the said 
College, desirous to render the same extensively use- 
ful, have prayed, that the said College may be erected 
into an University, and that such other Alterations 
may be made in the Charter, or Letters of Incorpora- 
tion above recited, as may render them more conform- 
able to the liberal Principles of the Constitution of 
this State; 

I. JBe it therefore enacted hy the People of the State 
of New- YorJc^ represented in Senate and Assembly^ 
and it is hereby enacted by the Anthority of the same^ 
That all the Rights, Privileges and Immunities here- 
tofore vested in the Corporation, heretofore known 
by the Name of the Governors of the College of the 
Province of New- York, in the City of New- York, in 
America, so far as they relate to the Capacity of 
holding or disposing of Property, either real or per- 
sonal, of suing or being sued, of making Laws or 
Ordinances for their own Government, or that of their 
Servants, Pupils and others, under their Care, and sub- 
ject to their Direction, of appointing, displacing and 
paying Stewards, and other inferior Servants ; of mak- 



164 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

ing, holding and having a common Seal, of altering 
and changing the same at pleasure, be and they hereby 
are vested in the Regents of the University of the 
State of ISTew-York, who are hereby erected into a 
Corporation or Body Corporate and Politic, and 
enabled to hold, possess and enjoy the above-men- 
tioned Rights, Franchises, Privileges and Immunities, 
together with such others as are contained in this Act, 
by the Name and Stile of the Regents of the Univer- 
sity of the State of New- York, of whom the Governor, 
the Lieutenant-Governor, the President of the Senate 
for the Time being, the Speaker of the Assembly, the 
Mayor of the City of New-York, and the Mayor of the 
City of Albany, the Attorney-General and the Secre- 
tary of the State respectively for the Time being, be 
and they hereby are severally constituted perpetual 
Regents, in Virtue of their several and respective 
Offices, Places and Stations ; and together with other 
Persons herein after named, to the Number of twenty- 
four, to wit, Henry Brockholst Livingston and Robert 
Harpur, of the City of New-York ; Walter Livingston 
and Christopher Yates, of the County of Albany ; 
Anthony Hoffman and Cornelius Humfrey, of the 
County of Dutchess ; Lewis Morris and Philip Pell, 
jun. of the County of Westchester; Henry Wisner 
and John Haring, of the County of Orange ; Christo- 
pher Tappen and James Clinton, of the County of 
Ulster ; Christopher P. Yates and James Livingston, 
of the County of Montgomery ; Abraham Bancker 
and John C. Dongan, of the County of Richmond ; 



UNIYEESITT OF STATE OF NEW YOEK. 165 

Matthew Clarkson and Rutger Yan Brunt, of the 
County of Kings ; James Townsend and Thomas 
Lawrence, of the County of Queens; Ezra L'Homme- 
dieu and Caleb Smith, of the County of Suffolk; and 
John Williams and John McCrea, of the County of 
Washington, be and they hereby are appointed Re- 
gents of the said University, and it shall and may 
be lawful to and for the Clergy, of the respective 
relig-ious Denominations in this State, to meet at such 
Time and Place as they shall deem proper after the 
passing of this Act, and being so met, shall by a 
Majority of Voices of those who shall so meet, choose 
and appoint one of their Body to be a Regent in the 
said University ; and in Case of Death or Resignation, 
to choose and appoint another in the same Manner; 
and the Regent, so chosen and appointed, shall have 
the like Powers as any other Regent, appointed or to 
be appointed by Virtue of this Act. 

And to the End, that a Succession of Regents be 
perpetually kept up ; 

II. Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid^ 
That whenever and so often as one or more of the 
Regents of the said University, not being such in 
Virtue of his or their Office, Place or Station, shall 
remove his or their Place of Residence from within 
this State, shall resign or die, that the Place or Places 
of such Regent or Regents so removing, I'esigning or 
dying, shall be filled up by the Governor or Person 
administering the Government of the State for the 
Time being, by and with the Advice and Consent of 



166 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

the Council of Appointment, so that such Appoint- 
ments be of Persons resident in the Counties respect- 
ively wherein the former Regents did reside, other 
than where such Vacancy may happen, of a Regent 
appointed by the Clergy as aforesaid. 

III. A7id be it further etiacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid, That as soon as may be after the passing 
of this Act, the Regents of the said University shall 
by plurality of Voices, choose a Chancellor, a Vice- 
Chancellor, a Treasurer and a Secretary from among 
the said Regents ; the said Chancellor, or in his Ab- 
sence the Vice-Chancellor to preside at all Elections 
and other Meetings to be held by the said Regents, 
and to have the casting Vote upon every Division : 

And for the well ordering and directing of the 
said Corporation ; 

IV. JBe it further enacted by the Authority afore- 
said, That the Regents of the said University, or a 
Majority of them, shall be, and hereby are vested with 
full Power and Authority to ordain and make Ordi- 
nances and By-Laws for the Government of the sev- 
eral Colleges which may or shall compose the said 
University ; and the several Presidents, Professors, 
Tutors, Fellows, Pupils and Servants thereof; and 
for the Management of soch Estate as they may and 
shall be invested with ; that they shall have full 
Power and Authority to determine the Salaries of the 
Officers and Servants of the said College ; to remove 
from Office any such President, Professor, Tutor, 
Fellow or Servant as they conceive, after a full hear- 



UNIVERSITY OF STATE OF ]S"EW TOEK. 167 

ing, to have abused their Trust, or to be incompetent 
thereto. 

Provided nevertheless, That no Fine to be levied by 
Virtue of the said Laws or Ordinances shall exceed 
the Value of one Bushel of Wheat for any one 
Offence, and that no Pupil or Student shall be sus- 
pended for a longer Term than twenty Days, or be 
* resticated or expelled, but upon a fair and full Hear- 
ing of the Parties by the Chancellor or Vice-Chan- 
cellor of the said University, and at least ten of the 
Pegents not being President or Professors of the Col- 
lege to which the Person accused belongs, or under 
whose immediate directions the same may be, and 
the said Regents are hereby further empowered and 
directed as soon as may be, to elect a President and 
Professors for the Colleo;e heretofore called Kino-s- 
College, which President shall continue in Place dur- 
ing the pleasure of the Regents of the University : 
And that from and after the first Election, the said 
Pi'esident and all future Presidents shall be elected 
from out of the Professors of the several Colleges 
that may or shall compose the said University ; and 
that no Professor shall be in any Wise whatsoever 
accounted * intelligible, for, or by Reason of any 
religious Tenet or Tenets, that he may or shall pro- 
fess or be compelled by any By-Law or otherwise to 
take any religious Test-Oath whatsoever : 

And to the End that the Intention of the Donors 

* So in the original act. • 



168 LEGISLATIVE ACTS IN^STITUTING 

and Benefactors of the said before-mentioned College 
be not defeated ; 

y. JBe it farther enacted hy the Authority afore- 
said^ That all the Estate, whether real or personal, 
which the said Governors of the Corporation of Kings- 
College held by Virtue of the said before mentioned 
Charter, be held and possessed by the said Regents, 
and applied solely to the Use of the said College ; and 
that the said Regents may, and they hereby are em- 
powered to receive and hold for the Use of the said 
College an Estate of the annual Value of Three 
Thousand and Five Hundred Pounds, in Manner spe- 
cifyed in the said first above recited Charter or Letters 
Patent of Incorporation. 

And for the further Promotion of Learning and 
the Extension of Literature ; 

VI. Be it farther enacted hy the Authority afore- 
said^ That the said Regents may hold and possess 
Estates real and personal to the annual Amount of 
forty thousand Bushels of Wheat, over and above all 
Profits arising from Room Rent or Tuition Money, 
and that whenever any Lands, Tenements or Here- 
ditaments, or other Estate real or personal, shall be 
given, granted or conveyed to the Regents of the 
University of the State, without expressing any Des- 
ignation thereof, such Estate shall be applied in such 
Manner as to the said Regents shall seem most advan- 
tageous to the said University. 

Provided ahoays^ That whenever any Gift, Grant, 
Bequest, Devise or Conveyance, shall express the par- 



UNIYERSITY OF STATE OF XETV YORK. 169 

Ucular Use to which the same is to be applied, if ade- 
quate thereto, it shall be so applied and no otherwise. 
yil. And be it further enacted by the Authority 
aforesaid^ That the said Regents be, and they hereby 
are empowered, to fomid Schools and Colleges in any 
part of this State, as may seem expedient to them, 
and to endow the same, vesting such Colleges so en- 
dowed with full and ample Powers to confer the De- 
grees of Batchelor of Arts, and directing the Manner 
in which such Colleges are to be governed, always 
reserving to the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of 
the University, and a certain number of the Regents 
to be appointed by a Majority of the said Regents, a 
rio;ht to visit and examine into the State of Literature 
in such College, and to report to the Regents at large, 
any Deficiency in the Laws of such College, or neglect 
in the Execution thereof, every such School or College 
being at all Times to be deemed a Part of the Uni- 
versity, and as such, subject to the Controul and 
Direction of the said Regents; and if it should so 
happen, that any Person or Persons, or any Body 
Politic or Corporate, should at his or their exjDense, 
found any College or School, and endow the same 
with an Estate real or personal, of the yearly Yalue 
of one Thousand ^Bushel of Wheat, that such School 
or College shall, on the Application of the Founder 
or Founders, or their Heirs or Successors, be consid- 
ered as composing a Part of the said University ; and 



* So in the original act. 
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170 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

the Estate thereunto annexed, shall be and hereby is 
vested in the said Regents of the University, to be 
applied according to the Intention of the Donor ; and 
that the said Founder and Founders, and their Heirs, 
or if a Body Corporate, their Successors shall be, and 
hereby are forever hereafter entitled to send a Kepre- 
sentative for such College or School, who, together 
with the President, (if the Estate is applied to the Use 
of the College) shall be and they hereby are at all 
Times hereafter to be considered as Regents of the 
said University, and vested with like Powers and 
Authorities in all Things, as in and by this Act is 
given to the other Regents of the said University, 
and the said College or School, shall in all Things not 
particularly restricted by the Donor, conform to the, 
general Laws and Regulation of the said University. 

Provided, Thsit nothing in this Act contained, shall 
be construed to deprive any Person or Persons, of the 
Right to erect such Schools or Colleges as to him or 
them may seem proper, independent of the said 
University. 

yill. And be it further enacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid, That whenever any religious Body or So- 
ciety of Men, shall deem it proper to institute a Pro- 
fessorship in the said University, for the Promotion of 
their particular religious Tenets, or for any other Pur- 
pose not inconsistent with Religion, Morality and the 
Laws of the State, and shall appropriate a Fund for 
that Purpose, not being less than two Hundred Bushels 
of Wheat per Annum, that the Regents of the said 



UNIVERSITY OF STATE OF l^EW YOEK. 171 

University shall cause the same to be applied as the 
Donors shall direct, for the Purposes above men- 
tioned, the said Professors so to be appointed, to be 
subject to the like Rules, Laws and Ordinances as 
other the Professors of the said University, and 
entitled to the like Immunities and Privileges. 

IX. And be if further enacted by the Authority 
aforesaid^ That the said Regents and their Successors, 
forever, shall and may have full Power and Author- 
ity, by the Chancellor or Yice-Chancellor of the said 
University, or any other Person or Persons by them 
authorised or appointed to give and grant to any of 
the Students of the said University, or to any Person 
or Persons thought worthy thereof, all such Degrees 
as well in Divinity, Philosophy, civil and municipal 
Laws, as in every other Art, Science and Faculty 
whatsoever, as are or may be conferred by all or any 
of the Universities in Europe; and that the Chan- 
cellor or in his absence the Vice-Chancellor of the 
said University for the Time being, do sign and seal 
with the Seal of the said Corporation, Diplomas or 
Certificates of such Degrees having been given, other 
than the Degree of Batchelor of Arts, which shall 
and may be granted by the President of the College, 
in which the Person taking the same, shall have been 
*gratuated, and the Diplomas shall be signed by the 
said President ; that the Persons to be elected Fel- 
lows, Professors or Tutors as aforesaid, be also Re- 

^ So in the orimnal act. 



172 LEGISLATIYB ACTS INSTITUTING 

gents of the said University, JEx officiis, and capable 
of voting in every Case relative only to the respective 
Colleges to which they shall belong, excepting in 
such Cases wherein they shall respectively be person- 
ally concerned or interested. 

X. A?id he it further enacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid^ That the College within the City of New- 
York, heretofore called King's College, be forever 
nereafter called and known by the Name of Columbia 
College. 



A.N Act to amend aist Act, entitled, " An Act foe, grant 
ing certain privileges to the college, heretofore 
Called King's College, for altering the Name and 
Charter thereof, and erecting an University with- 
in THIS State," Passed the 1st day of May, 1784. 

Passed 26th Nov. 1784. 

Whereas it is represented to the Legislature, that 
from the dispersed Residences of many of the Regents 
of the University of this State, and the Largeness of 
the Quorum, who are made capable of Business, the 
Interest and Prosperity of the said University have 
been greatly obstructed. And it is also represented 
that certain Doubts have arisen in the Construction 
of the Act, entitled, " An Act for granting certain 
Privileges to the College heretofore called King's Col* 
lege, for altering the Name and Charter thereof, and 
erecting an University within this State, passed the 
first Day of May, 1784." For Remedy whereof 

L Be it enacted hy the People of the State of Wew- 
YorJc^ represented in Senate and Assemhly^ and it is 



UNIYEESITT OF STATE OF NEW TOKK. 173 

hereby enacted hy the Authority of the same. That in 
Addition to the Regents appointed in and by the 
before-mentioned Act, the several Persons herein after- 
named, shall be, and hereby respectively are consti- 
tuted Regents of the said University, (that is to say) 
John Jay, Samuel Provost, John H. Livingston, John 
Rodgers, John Mason, John Ganoe, John Daniel 
Gros, Johann Ch. Kunze, Joseph Delaplain, Gershoni 
Seixas, Alexander Hamilton, John Lawrence, John 
Rutherford, Morgan Lewis, Leonard Lispenard, John 
Cochran, Charles Mc.Knight, Thomas Jones, Malachi 
Treat and Nicholas Remain of New York; Peter W. 
Yates, Matthew Yisscher and Hunlock Woodruff, of 
Albany; George J. L. Doll, of Ulster; John Yan- 
derbilt, of Kings ; Thomas Romain, of Montgomery ; 
Samuel Buel, of Suffolk ; Gilbert Livingston, of 
Dutchess; Nathan Kerr, of Orange; Ebenezer Lock- 
wood, of Westchester, John Lloyd, jun. of Queens; 
Harmanus Garrison, of Richmond ; and Ebenezer Rus- 
sell, of Washington : And that the said respective 
Regents hereby constituted, shall enjoy the same 
Power and Authority, as are granted to, and vested 
in the other Regents appointed by the said Act, as 
fully and effectually, as if they had been therein ex- 
pressly named. 

IT. And be it further e?7acted by the authority 
aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for 
the Chancellor of the said University, and in his 
Absence the Yice-Chancellor, and in the Absence of 
both, the Regent next nominated in the before-men- 
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174 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

tioned Act, who shall he present together with any 
eight or more of the Regents duly convened to form 
a Quorum of Regents for the Dispatch of the Busi- 
ness and affairs of the said University, whose Acts 
and Proceedings shall be as valid and effectual to all 
Intents and Purposes, as if all the Members of the 
said Regency were actually present. Provided always^ 
That to constitute a legal Meeting of the Regents, 
the Time and Place for holding the same, shall be 
previously fixed by the Chancellor, or in his Absence 
the Yice-Chancellor, or in the Absence of both, the 
Regent next nominated in the said Act, by writing 
under his Hand, and Notice thereof signed by the 
Secretary of the University, shall previously be ad- 
vertised in one of the public Newspapers, for at least 
two Weeks, to give all the Regents within a conven- 
ient Distance, an Opportunity of attending. 

III. And he it further enacted by the authority 
aforesaid^ That there shall be an annual Meeting of 
the Regents of the said University, which shall be 
held at the Time and Place where the Legislature 
shall first be convened, after the first Monday of July 
in every Year, and that at every such Meeting the 
Acts and Proceedings of the Regents of the said Uni- 
versity shall be reported and examined. 

TV. And be it further enacted by the Authority 
aforesaid^ That it shall and may be lawful to, and 
for the Clergy of each respective religious Denomin- 
ation in this State, respectively to meet at such Time 
and Place as they shall deem proper, after the pass- 



■UNIVEESITY OF STATE OF NEW YORK. 175 

ing of this Act, and then and there, by a Majority 
of Voices of the Members of each respective Denom- 
ination so assembled, to elect one of each of their 
respective Bodies, to be a Regent of the said Uni- 
versity, and in Case of Death or Resignation, to elect 
Successors in the same Manner; and every Regent 
so elected shall have the like Powers as any Regent 
constituted by this Act, or the Act hereby amended. 

Y. And be it further enacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid^ That the next Meeting of the Regents of 
the said University shall be held at the Senate Cham- 
ber, the Day after the rising of the Legislature, if 
that Day shall not happen on Sunday, in which Case, 
the said Meeting shall be held on the Day succeeding, 
and a sufficient Quorum of the Regents being assem- 
bled, shall have Power to adjourn from Time to Time, 
and to any Place they shall think fit for the Dispatch 
of the Business of the said University. 

YI. And he it further enacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid^ That it shall and may be lawful to and for 
the Treasurer of this State, and he is hereby author 
ized and required to advance to the Treasurer of the 
said University for the Use of Columbia College a 
Sum not exceeding Two Thousand Five Hundred 
and Fifty-two Pounds, for which the said Regents 
shall be accountable, out of the Funds of the said 
Columbia College. 



176 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 



An Act to Institute an University within this State, 
and foe, other purposes therein mentioned. 

Passed 13th April, 1787. 

Wheeeas by two Acts of the Legislature of the 
State of New-Yorh^ the one passed the first Day of 
May^ and the other the Twenty-sixth Day of Novem- 
ber^ One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-four, an 
University is instituted within this State, in the Man- 
ner, and with the Powers, therein specified : Aoid 
whereas^ from the Representation of the Regents of 
the said University, it appears that there are Defects 
in the Constitution of the said University, which 
call for Alterations and Amendments: And whereas 
a Number of Acts on the same Subject, amending, 
correcting and altering former Ones, tend to render 
the same less intelligible and easy to be understood 5 
Wherefore, to the End that the Constitution of the 
said University may be jjroperly amended, and appear 
entire in one Law, it will be expedient to delineate 
and establish the same in this, and repeal all former 
Acts relative thereto : 

I. Be it Mm,acted hy the People of the State of New- 
York, represented' in Senate and Assembly^ and it is 
hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same, That 
an University be, and is hereby instituted within this 
State, to be called and known by the Name or Style 
of, The Megents of the University of the State of 
New- York. That the said Regents shall always be 
Twenty-one in Number, of which the Governor and 



UNIVERSITY OF STATE OF NEW TOEK. 177 

Lieutenant-Governor of the State for the Time being, 
shall always, in Virtue of their Offices, be Two. 
That the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and 
John Hodgers, Egbert Benson^ Philip Schuyler, JEzra 
JO' Som^nedieu, Nathan Carr, Peter Sylvester, John 
Jay, DircTc Hoineyn, James lAvingston, JEhenezer 
Pussell, Lewis Morris, Matthew Clarkson, Benjamin 
Moore, Eilardus Westerlo, Andrew King, 'William 
Lynn, Jonathan G. Tompkins, John M"* Donald and 
Frederick William Be Steuben, shall be, and hereby 
are appointed the present Regents; and that they, 
and all the future Regents, shall continue in Place 
during the Pleasure of the Legislature. That all 
Vacancies in the Regency which may happen by 
Death or Removal, or Resignation, shall, from Time 
to Time, be supplied by the Legislature, in the Man- 
ner in wh'ch Delegates to Congress are appointed. 
That the said Regents, as soon as may be after the 
passing (,f this Act, shall convene at such Time and 
Place as the Governor shall appoint, and by Plurality 
of Voices, by Ballot, choose a Chancellor and Vice- 
Chancellor, to continue in Office during the Pleasure 
of the said Regents. That the said Chancellor, or in 
his Absence from the said Meeting, the Vice-Chan- 
cellor, or in Case both be absent, then the senior 
Regent present (and whose Seniority shall be decided 
by the Order in which the Regents are named or 
appointed) shall preside; and in Case of Division, 
have a casting Voice at all Meetings of the said Re- 
gents. That all Meetings of the said Regents, after 



178 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

the First, shall be held at such Time and Place as the 
Chancellor, or in Case of his Death, Absence from 
the State, or Resignation, the yice-Chancellor, or in 
Case of the Death, Absence from the State, or Resig- 
nation of both of them, then at such Time and Place 
as the senior Regent present in the State, shall ap- 
point. And it shall be the Duty of the Chancellor, 
Vice-Chancellor, or Senior Regent, as the Case in 
Virtue of the above Contingencies may be, to order 
and call a Meeting of the said Regents, whenever and 
as often as three Regents shall, in Writing, apply for 
and request the same ; such Order or Call to be pub- 
lished inone or more of the public News-Papers in the 
City of New- York, at least ten Days prior to such 
Meeting. And further, That any Eight of the said 
Regents meeting at the Time and Place so ordered, 
shall be a Quorum, and be enabled to transact and do 
the Business which by this Act they shall be author- 
ized or directed to do and transact. That the said 
University shall be, and hereby is incorporated, and 
shall be known by the Name of. The Regents of the 
University of the State of New-York, and by that 
NTame shall have perpetual Succession, and Power to 
sue and be sued, to hold Property, real and personal, 
to the Amount of the annual Income of Forty TJiou- 
sancl Bushels of Wheat ; to buy and to sell, and 
otherwise lawfully dispose of Lands and Chattels; to 
make and use a common Seal, and to alter the same 
at Pleasure. 

II. And he it further Enacted hy the Authority 



UNIYERSITT OF STATE OF NEW TOEK. 1*79 

aforesaid, That the said Corporation shall appoint, 
by Ballot, a Treasurer and a Secretary, to continue 
in Office during the Pleasure of the Corporation. 
That the Treasurer shall keep fair and true Accounts 
of all Moneys by him received and paid out ; and 
that the Secretary shall keep a fair Journal of the 
Meetings and Proceedings of the Corporation, in 
which the Yeas and Nays on all Questions shall be 
entered, if required by any one of the Kegents pres- 
ent. And to all the Books and Papers of the Cor- 
poration, every Regent shall always have Access, and 
be permitted to take Copies of them. 

III. A?id he it further Enacted by the Authority 
aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for 
the said Regents, and they are hereby authorized and 
required to visit and inspect all the Colleges, Acad- 
emies and Schools, which are or may be established 
in this State ; examine into the State and System of 
Education and Discipline therein, and make a yearly 
Report thereof to the Legislature ; and also to visit 
every College in this State once a Year, by them- 
selves or by their Committees ; and yearly to report 
the State of the same to the Legislature ; and to 
make such Bye-Laws and Ordinances, not inconsistent 
with the Constitution and Laws of the State, as they 
may jndge most expedient for the Accomplishment 
of the Trust hereby reposed in them. And in Case 
the Trustees of the said Colleges, or any of them, shall 
leave the Office of President of the College, or the 
Trustees of any Academy shall leave the Office or 



180 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

Place of Principal of the Academy vacant, for the 
Space of one Year, it shall, in all such Cases, be law- 
ful for the Regents, unless a reasonable Cause shall 
be assigned for such Delay, to their Satisfaction, to 
fill up such Vacancies; and the Persons by them 
appointed shall continue in Office during the Pleas- 
ure of the Regents, and shall respectively be received 
by the College or Academy to which they may be 
appointed, and shall have all the Powers, and exactly 
the same Salary, Emoluments and Privileges, as his 
next immediate Predecessor in Office enjoyed, if any 
Predecessor he had ; if not, then such Salary as the 
Regents shall direct, to be paid by the Trustees, who 
shall, out of the Funds or Estate of their College or 
Academy, be compellable by the said President or 
Principal to pay the same. 

IV. A}id be it further Enacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid, That the said Regents shall have the Right 
of conferring, by Diplomas under their common Seal, 
on any Person or Persons whom they may think 
worthy thereof, all such Degree or Degrees, above 
or beyond those of Batchelor or Master of Arts, as 
are known to and usually granted by any University 
or College in Europe. 

V. And he it further Enacted by the Authority 
aforesaid. That it shall and may be lawful to and for 
the said Regents, from Time to Time, to apply such 
Part of their Estate and Funds, in such Manner as 
they may think most conducive to the Promotion of 
Literature, and the Advancement of useful Knowl- 



UNIVEESITY OF STATE OF NEW YOEK. 181 

edge within this State. Provided always^ That where 
Grants shall be made to them for certain Uses and 
Purposes therein expressed and declared, the same 
shall not be applied, either in Whole or in Part, to 
any other Uses. 

yi. And be it further Enacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid^ That the Regents shall annually meet on 
the second Thursday next after the Senate and 
Assembly, at the annual Session of the Legislature, 
shall have formed a Quorum respectively, and at the 
Assembly-Chamber, immediately after the Assembly 
shall have adjourned. That the said Regents, at 
such Meetings, and all others, may adjourn from 
Time to Time, not exceeding ten Days at any one 
Time. 

YII. And he it further Enacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid^ That any Citizen or Citizens, or Bodies 
Corporate, within this State, being minded to found 
a College at any Place within the same, he or they 
shall, in Writing, make known to the Regents, the 
Place where, the Plan on which, and the Funds with 
which it is intended to found and provide for the 
same, and who are proposed for the first Trustees ; 
and in Case the Regents shall approve thereof, then 
they shall declare their Approbation, by an Instru- 
ment under their common Seal, and allow a conven- 
ient Time for completing the same. And if at the 
Expiration of the said Time, it shall appear to the 
Satisfaction of the Regents, that the said Plan and 
Propositions are fully executed, then they shall, by 
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182 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

Act under their common Seal, declare, that the said 
College, to be named as the Founders shall signify, 
and with such Trustees, not exceeding Twenty-four, 
nor less than ten, as they shall Name, shall forthwith 
become incorporated, and shall have perpetual Suc- 
cession, and enjoy all the corporate Rights and Privi- 
leges enjoyed by Columbia College^ herein after 
mentioned. 

VIII. And he it further Enacted hy the. Authority 
aforesaid^ That the Charter heretofore granted to 
the Governors of the College of the Province of New- 
York^ in the City of JSFew- York^ in America^ dated 
the Thirty-first Day of October^ in the Year of our 
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-four, 
shall be, and hereby is fully and absolutely ratified 
and confirmed, in all Respects, except that the Col- 
lege thereby established, shall be henceforth called 
Columbia College : That the Stile of the said Corpo- 
ration shall be. The Trustees of Columbia College, in 
the City of New-Yoek ; and that no persons shall be 
Trustees of the same, in Virtue of any Ofiices, Charac- 
ters or Descriptions whatever; excepting also such 
Clauses thereof as require the taking of Oaths, and 
subscribing the Declaration therein mentioned ; and 
which render a person ineligible to the Office of 
President of the College, on Account of his religious 
Tenets, and prescribe a Form of public Prayer to be 
used in the said College; and also excepting the 
Clause thereof which provides, that the Bye-Laws 
and Ordinances to be made in Pursuance thereof, 



UNIVERSITY OF STATE OF NEW YORK. 183 

should not be repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of 
that Part of the Kingdom of Great-Britain^ called 
England ; except also, that in all Cases SY^i^Y^ fifteen 
Governors are required to constitute a Quorum for 
the Dispatch of Business, thirteen Trustees shall be 
sufficient. Provided alicays^ That the Bye-Laws and 
Ordinances to be made by the Trustees of the said 
Columbia College, shall not be contrary to the Con- 
stitution and Laws of this State. 

IX. And he it further Enacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid^ That James Diiane, Samuel Provo,st, John 
H. Livingston, Richard Varick, Alexander Hamilton^ 
Joh7i Mason, James Wilson, John Gano, Prochholst 
Livingston, Pohert Harper, John Daniel Gross, 
Johann Christoff Eunze, Walter Livingston^ Lewis 
A. Scott, Joseph Lelaplaine, Leonard Lispenard, 
Abraham Leach, John Lawrence, John Eutherford, 
Morgfin Leiois, John Cochran, Gershom Seixas, 
Charles M'' Enight, Thomas Jones, Malachi Treat, 
Samuel Lard, Nicholas Eomein, Benjamin Eissam. 
and Ebenezer Crossby,^h.2i\\ be, and they are hereby 
constituted and declared to be the present Trustees 
of Columbia College, in the City of JSTeic- Yoi^h, and 
that when by the Death or Resignation, or Removal 
of anv of the said Trustees, the N^umber of those 
Trustees shall be reduced to Twenty-four, then and 
from thenceforth the said Twenty-four Trustees shall 
be, and they hereby are declared and constituted 
Trustees of the said Columbia College, in perpetual 
Succession, according to the true Intent and Meaning 



184 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

of the said Charter; and all Vacancies thereafter, 
shall be supplied in the Manner thereby directed. 

X. A?id be it further Enacted by the Authority 
aforesaid^ That all and singular the Power, Author- 
ity, Rights, Privileges, Franchises and Immunities, 
so heretofore granted to, and vested in the said Gov- 
ernors of the College of the Province of JVevj- York^ 
in the City of JSTevj-York, in America, by the said 
Charter, excepting as before excepted, shall be, and 
the same hereby are granted to and vested in the 
Trustees of Columbia College, in the City of JSTeio- 
YorJc, and their Successors forever, as fully and effect- 
ually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same were 
herein particularly specified and expressed ; and all 
and singular the Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments 
and real Estate, Goods, Chattels, Rents, Annuities, 
Monies, Books and other Property, whereof the said 
Governors of the College of the Province of iVe^/> 
York, in the City of N'ew- York, in America, were 
seised, possessed or entitled, under and in Virtue of 
the said Charter, or with which the Regents of the 
said University were invested, under or by Virtue of 
the said Acts, for the Use or Benefit of the said 
Golum^bia College, shall be, and the same hereby are 
granted to and vested in the said Trustees of Colum- 
bia College, in the City of New-York, and their Suc- 
cessors forever, for the sole Use and Benefit of the 
said College ; and it shall and may be lawful to and 
for the said Trustees, and their Successors, to grant, 
bargain, sell, demise, improve and dispose of the 



- UNIVERSITY OF STATE OF NEW YORK. 185 

same, as to them shall seem meet. Provided cdioays^ 
That the Lands given and granted to the Governors 
of the College of the Province of N'ew- Y'ork^ in the 
City of JVevj- YorJc, in America^ by the Corporation, 
heretofore stiled, nie Hector and Inhabitants of the 
City of New-Yokk, in Communion of the Church 
of England, as by Laio established^ on Part whereof 
the said College is erected, shall not be granted for 
any greater Estate, or in any other Manner, than is 
limited by the said Charter. 

XI. And be it further Enacted by the Attthority 
aforesaid^ That when any special Meeting of the 
Trustees of the said College, shall be deemed neces- 
sary, it shall and may be lawful to and for the senior 
Trustee of the said College, then in the City oi New- 
ITorh^ and taking upon himself the Exercise of the 
Office (which Seniority shall be determined according 
to the Order in which the said Trustees are named in 
this Act, and shall be elected hereafter) and he is 
hereby authorized and required, on Application for 
that Purpose in Writing, under the Hands of any five 
or more of the said Trustees, to appoint a Time for 
such special Meeting, in some convenient Place within 
the said City, and to cause due Notice thereof to be 
given in the Manner directed by the said Charter. 

XII. And lohereas Academies for the Instruction 
of Youth in the Languages, and other Branches of 
useful Learning, have been erected and instituted in 
different Parts of this State, by the free and liberal 
Henefactions of Corporations, as well as Individuals ; 

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186 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

and the Regents of tlie University having repre- 
sented, that the Appointment and Incorporation of 
Trustees for each of the said Academies, with com- 
petent Powers to manage the Funds already appro- 
priated, and the Donations which may be made to 
such Academies, and to superintend the Morals and 
Education of tlie Scholars, and the Conduct of the 
Principal, Masters and Teachers, would greatly con- 
duce to their Security and Prosperity ; Therefore, Be 
it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid^ That 
upon the Application of the Founders and Benefac- 
tors of any Academy, now or hereafter to be erected 
or established within any of the Cities or Counties 
of tliis State, or as many of them as shall have con- 
tributed more than one Half in Value of the real and 
personal Property and Estate, collected or appropria- 
ted for the Use and Benefit thereof, by an Instrument 
ill Writing, under their Hands and Seals, to the 
Kegents of the University, expressing their Request, 
that such Academy should be incorporated, and be 
subject to the Visitation of the Regents, nominating 
iu such Instrument the Trustees, not more than 
Twenty-four or less than Twelve^ for such Academy, 
and specifying the Name by which the said Trustees 
shall be called and distinguished ; and whenever any 
such Request shall be made to the said Regents, 
they shall, in every such Case, (if they conceive such 
Academy calculated for the Promotion of Literature) 
by an Instrument under their common Seal, signify 
their App: obation of the Incorporation of the Trust- 



UNIYEESITY OF STATE OF NEW YOEK. 187 

ees of such Academy, named by the Founders 
thereof, by the Name mentioned in and by their said 
Request in Writing ; which said Request in Writing, 
and Instrument of Approbation by the said Regents, 
shall be recorded in the Secretary's Office of the 
State. 

XIII. And he it further Enacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid^ That the Trustees so constituted, shall be 
the first Trustees for the Academy for which they 
shall be appointed, and immediately after recording 
the said Request in Writing, and Instrument of 
Approbation, shall be legally invested with all the 
real and personal Estate appertaining to such 
Academy, or in any wise given or granted for the 
Use thereof; and the said Trustees, from the Time of 
their Appointment as aforesaid, and their Successors 
forever thereafter, shall be a Body Corporate and 
Politic, in Deed, Fact and Name, known and distin- 
guished by the Name and Stile to be expressed in 
the said Instrument ; and by that Name shall have 
perpetual Succession, and be capable in the Law to 
sue and be sued, and defend and be defended, in all 
Courts, and in all Causes, Plaints, Controversies, Mat- 
ters and Things whatsoever ; and by the same Name 
and Stile, they and their Successors shall lawfully 
hold, use and enjoy the Lands, Tenements and Here- 
ditaments, in any wise appertaining to the Academy 
for which they shall be constituted Trustees, and 
shall and may lawfully have, take, acquire, purchase 
and enjoy Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, and 



188 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

use and improve such Goods and Chattels, in such 
Manner as they shall judge to be most beneficial for 
such Academy: Provided^ That the annual Revenue 
or Income arising from the real and personal Estate 
of any such Academy, shall not exceed the Value of, 
Fotir Tliousand PusJiels of Wheat / any Law, Usage 
or Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding. 

XIY. And he it further JEnacted by the Authority 
aforesaid^ That it shall and may be lawful to and for 
such Trustees, and their Successors forever, to have 
and use a common Seal, and the same to alter, break 
and make a-new at their Pleasure. And as often as 
any three or more of the said Trustees shall think fit, 
and signify their Request, the senior Trustee actually 
exercising his Office, and residing within three Miles 
of such Academy, shall call a Meeting of the said 
Trustees, at such convenient Time and Place as he 
shall appoint, not less than eight nor more than 
twelve Days from the Time of such Request, of which 
previous Notice in Writing shall be affixed on the Door 
of the Academy, and of the Church nearest thereto, 
within two Days after such Appointment ; and at 
every such Meeting the senior Trustee shall preside ; 
such Seniority in all Cases to be determined accord- 
ing to the Order of their Nomination in the said 
Instrument, or according to the Priority of Election 
after all the first Trustees shall become extinct : 
And the major Part of such Trustees shall always be 
a sufficient Quorum to proceed on Business, and 
shall have full Power and Authority to adjourn 



TJjSTIVEESITY of state of new YORK. 189 

from Time to Time, not exceeding seven Days at any 
one Time, as the Duties of their Trust may require. 
And it shall and may be lawful to and for s'dch Quo- 
rum of the said Trustees, when assembled and m.ot 
in Manner aforesaid, or the major Part of them, from 
Time to Time, to appoint a Treasurer and Clerk, 
Principal, Masters, Tutors, Teachers and other neces- 
sary Officers ; to ascertain their respective Salaries, 
and to remove and displace any of them at their 
Pleasure ; and to make Bye-Laws for the Admission, 
Education, Government and Discipline of the Scholars 
or Students, and the Establishment of the Price or 
Terms of Tuition ; for securing, revising and paying 
out and disposing of the Revenues, and in general 
for conducting and managing the Estate, Business 
and Affairs of the said Academy, and every Matter 
and Thing relating thereto, in such Manner as they 
shall judge to be most conducive to its Interest and 
Prosperity, and the End of their Trust. 

XV. And in Order to preserve the Succession of 
Trustees for the said Academies respectively ; Be it 
further Miaoted by the Authority aforesaid, That 
whenever a Vacancy shall happen in any Corporation 
of Trustees, by the Death, Resignation or Refusal to 
act of any Trustee, it shall and may be lawful to and 
for the Trustees of such Academy, and they are 
hereby authorized and required, at any legal Meeting 
of the Trustees, to elect and choose a lit Person to 
fill up and supply such Vacancy. 



190 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

XYI. And for the greater Encouragement of such 
Academies, and to render them more useful and 
respectable ; Be it further Enacted by the Authority 
aforesaid^ That the Regents of the University shall 
be visitors of such Academies, and the Chancellor, 
Yice-Chancellor, or a Committee of the Regents, 
shall, as often as they see proper, visit such Acade- 
mies, to enquire into the State and Progress of Litera- 
ture therein. 

XYII. And he it further Enacted by the Authority 
aforesaid^ That when any Scholar who shall be edu- 
cated at any of the said Academies, on due Exami- 
nation by the President and Professors of Columbia 
College, or any other College, subject to the Visita- 
tion of the said Regents, shall be found competent, 
in the Judgment of the said President and Professors, 
to enter into the Sophomore, Junior or Senior Classes^ 
of such Colleges respectively, such Scholar shall be 
entitled to an Admission into such of the said Classes 
for which he shall be so adjudged competent, and 
shall be admitted accordingly, at any one of the 
quarterly Examinations of such respective Classes. 

X V n I. Provided always, and be it further Enacted 
by the Authority aforesaid, That to entitle the 
Scholars of any such Academy to the Privileges 
aforesaid, the Trustees thereof shall lay before the 
Regents of the said University, from Time to Time, 
the Plan or System proposed to be adopted, for the 
Education of the Students in each of the said Acad- 
emies respectively, in order that the same may be 



TJNIYEESITT OF STATE OF NEW YORK. 191 

revised and examined by the said Regents, and by 
them be altered or amended, or approved and con- 
firmed, as they shall judge proper. 

XIX. A7id be it further Enacted hy the Authority 
aforesaid^ That whenever it shall appear to the said 
Regents, that the State of Literature in any Academy 
is so far advanced, and the Funds will admit thereof, 
hatt it may be expedient that a President be appoin- 
ted for such Academy ; the said Regents shall, in 
such Case, signify their Approbation thereof, under 
their common Seal, which being entered of Record 
as aforesaid, shall authorize the Trustees of such 
Academy to elect a President, who shall have, hold 
and enjoy all the Powers that the President of any 
College recognized by this Act, shall or may lawfully 
have, hold and enjoy ; and such Academy thereafter, 
instead of being called an Academy, shall be called 
and known by the same Kame it was called while it 
was an Academy, except that the Word College shall 
be used in all Cases, instead of the Word Acader)iy ; 
and be subject to the like Rules, Regulations, Con- 
troul and visitation of the Regents, as other Colleges 
mentioned in this Act. 

XX. And he it further Enacted by the Authority 
aforesaid^ That no President or Professor shall . be 
ineligible for or by Reason of any religious Tenet or 
Tenets that he may or shall profess ; or be compelled 
by any Law or otherwise, to take any Test Oath 
whatsoever ; and no Professor or Tutor of any Col- 
lege or Academy recognized by this Act, shall be a 



192 LEGISLATIVE ACTS INSTITUTING 

Trustee of any such College or Academy, nor shall 
any President of any College, or Principal of any 
Academy, who shall be a Trustee, have a Vote in 
any Case relating to his own Salary or Emoluments ; 
nor shall any Trustee, President, Principal, Tutor, 
Fellow, or other Officer of any College or Academy, 
be a Regent of the University. 

XXI. And be it further Enacted by the Authority 
aforesaid^ That whenever any Person now or here- 
after appointed a Trustee of any College or Academy, 
shall be appointed or electccl a Regent of the Uni- 
versity, and whenever any Person being a Regent of 
the University, shall be appointed or elected a Trustee 
of any College or Academy, such Person so appointed 
or elected shall, on due Notice thereof, decide and 
elect in which of the said Places he will serve, and 
by Writing under his Hand, shall make known such 
Election, whether of Refusal or Acceptance, to those 
by whom he was elected, to the End that such 
Appointment may take Effect, in Case he accept it, 
or that they proceed to a new Appointment, in Case 
he refuse it. 

XXII. And be it further Enacted by the Authority 
a/br65a^V7,-That the Ac-t, entitled, An Act for grant- 
ing certain Privileges to the College heretofore called 
King's College, for alterijig the Name and Charter 
thereof^ and erecting an University within this State, 
passed the 1st Day of May, 1784; and the Act, 
entitled. An Act to amend an Act, entitled. An Act 
for granting certain Privileges to the College hereto- 



UNIYEESITY OP STATE OP XEW TOBK. 193 

fore called King's College, for altering the Name and 
Charter thereof and erecting an University within 
this State, passed the 26th Day of November^ 1784, 
be, and they are hereby severally repealed. 
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194 UNIVEESITY OF STATE OF NEW YOBK. 



CHAPTER XIX. 
EEGENTS OF THE UNIYEESITY. 

I. Regents appointed under tlie acts of tlie Legislature of 
May 1, and November 26, 1784, arranged in the order of 
seniority as established by the said acts. 

1. Ex-OFFicio Regents. 
The Governor^ George Clinton. 
Tlie Lieutenant- Governor^ Pierre Yan Cortlandt. 

The President of the Senate for the time heing^ 
Abraham Yates, jun., 

Oct. 18th to Nov. 29th, 1^84; 
Jan'y 24th to April 27th, 1785 ; 
March 27th and 28th, 1786 ; 
April 4th to May 5th, 1786. 

Tlie Speaker of the Assembly^ 

John Hathorn, 1784-5 

David Gelston, 1 785 

John Lansing, jun., , , 1786 

Richard Yarick, 1787. 

TJie Mayor of the City of New YorJc^ James Duane. 

The Mayor of the city of Albany^ 

John Jacob Beeckman, 1784-86 ; 

John Lansing, jun., Sep. 29th, 1786-87. 

TJie Attorney- General^ 

Egbert Benson. 



CATALOGUE OF EEGENTS. 195 

The Secretary of State, 

John Morin Scott. 

2. Additional Regents. 

(1.) By the Act op May 1, 1784. 

Henry Brockholst Livingston and Robert Harpur, 

of the City of New YorJc. 

Walter Livingston and Christopher Yates, 

of the County of Albany. 

Anthony Hoffman and Cornelius Humfrey, 

of the County of Dutchess. 

Lewis Morris and Philip Pell, jun., 

of the County of Westchester, 

Henry Wisner and John Haring, 

of the County of Orange^ 

Christopher Tappen and James Clinton, 

of the County of Ulster. 

Christopher P. Yates and James Livingston, 

of the County of Montgomery. 

Abraham Bancker and John C. Dongan, 

of the County of Richmond, 

Matthew Clarkson and Rutger Yan Brunt, 

of the County of Kings. 

James Townsend and Thomas Lawrence, 

of the County of Queens. 

Ezra L'Hommedieu and Caleb Smith, 

of the Caunty of Suffolk. 

John Williams and John McCrea, 

of the County of Washington. 



196 univeksity of state of new yoek. 

(2) By the Act of Noy. 26, 1784. 
John Jay, John Rodgers, 

Samuel Provost, John Mason, 

John H. Livingston, John Ganoe, 

John Daniel Gros, Morgan Lewis, 

Johann Ch. Kunze, Leonard Lispenard, 

Joseph Delaplain, John Cochran, 

Gershom Seixas, Charles McKnight, 

Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jones, 

John Lawrence, Malachi Treat, 

John Rutherford, Nicholas Remain, 

all of New York, 
Peter W. Yates, 
Matthew Yisscher, 
Hunlock Woodrufi", all of Albany. 
George J. L. Doll, of Ulster. 
John Yanderbilt, of Kings. 
Thomas Romain, of 3£ontgomery, 
Samuel Buel, of Suffolk. 
Gilbert Livingston, of Dutchess. 
Nathan Kerr, of Orange. 
Ebenezer Lockwood, of Westchester, 
John Lloyd, jun., of Queens. 
Harmanus Garrison, of Richmond. 
Ebenezer Russell, of Washington. 

The Board organized on the 5th day of May, 1784, 
by the election of the following officers : 

Chancellor — His Excellency, George Clinton. 

Yice- Chancellor — His Honor, Pierre Yan Cortlandt. 

Treasurer — Brockholst Livingston, Esquire. 

Secretary — Robert Harpur, Esquire. 



CATALOGUE OF EEGENTS. 197 

The Board remained without change by new ap- 
pointments until the passage of the act of April 13, 

1787. 

IT. Regents appointed under the act of April 13, 1787, arranged 
by classes, in the order of succession under each class. 

The Governor and Lieutenant-Governor have been 

ex-officio members of the Board since its organization ; 

the Secretary of State since the year 1842; and the 

Superintendent of Public Instruction since the year 

1854. 

1. Ex-OFFicio Regents. 
Governors. 

George Clinton, 1784 

John Jay, 1795 

George Clinton, 1801 

Morgan Lewis, 1804 

Daniel D. Tompkins, 1807 

De Witt Clinton, 1817 

Joseph C. Yates, , 1823 

De Witt Clinton, 1825 

Martin Yan Buren, 1829 

Enos T. Throop, 1831 

William L. Marcy, 1833 

William H. Seward, 1839 

William C. Bouck, 1843 

Silas Wright, 1845 

John Young, 1 847 

Hamilton Fish, 1849 

'Washington Hunt, 1851 

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198 UNIVERSITY OF STATE OP NEW YORK. 

Myron H. Clark, ...._.._.__._. 1855 

Horatio Seymour, ,„,.». 1853 

John A. King, 1 857 

Edwin D. Morgan, 1859 

Horatio Seymour, .................. 1863 

Reuben E. Fenton, . , 1865 

John T. Hoffman, 1869 

Lieutenant- Goveriiors. 

Pierre Van Cortlandt, 1784 

Stephen Van Rensselaer, 1795 

Jeremiah Yan Rensselaer, 1801 

John Broome, 1 804 

De Witt Clinton, 1812 

John Tayler, 1^814 

Erastus Root, r823 

James Talmadge, 1825 

Nathaniel Pitcher, 1827 

Enos T. Throop, 1829 

Edward P. Livingston, 1831 

John Tracy, 1833 

Luther Bradish, 1839 

Daniel S. Dickinson, 1843 

Addison Gardiner, 1845 

Hamilton Fish, 1847 

George W. Patterson, 1849 

Sanford E. Church, 1851 

Henry J. Raymond, , 1855 

Henry R. Selden, 1857 

Robert Campbell, 1859 



CATALOGUE OF EEGENTS. 199 

David K. Floyd Jones, 1863 

Thomas G. Alvord, 1865 

Stewart L. Woodford, 1867 

Allen C. Beach, 1869 

Secretaries of State. 

Samuel Young, 1842 

Nathaniel S, Benton, 1 845 

Christopher Morgan, 1848 

Henry S. Randall, 1852 

Elias W. Leavenworth, 1854 

Joel T. Headley, 1856 

Gideon J. Tucker, 1858 

David R. Floyd Jones, , 1860 

Horatio Ballard, 1862 

Chauncey M. Depew, 1864 

Francis C. Barlow, 1 866 

Homer A. Nelson, 1868 

Superintendents of Public Instruction. 

Victor M. Rice, , 1854 

Henry H. Van Dyck, 1857 

Victor M. Rice, 1862 

Abram B. Weaver, 1868 

2. Regents Appointed by the Legislatuee. 

1. John Rodgers, D. D.. April 13, 1787. Deceased. 

2. Joseph C. Yates, Feb. 28, 1812. Resigned. 

8. Prosper M. Wetmore, April 4, 1833. 

1. Egbert Benson, LL.D., April 13, 1787. Resigned. 

2. John Tayler, Feb. 1, 1802. Deceased. 

3. John Suydam, Mar. 31, 1829. Deceased. 



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UNIVEESITY OF STATE OF NEW TOEK. 



4. Wasliington Irving, May 9, 1835. Resigned. 

5. David Buel, Mar. 24, 1842. Deceased. 

6. Elias W. Leavenworth, Feb. £1861. 

1. Philip Schuyler, April 13, 1787. Deceased. 

2. Ambrose Spencer, LL.D., Jan. 28, 1805. Vacated. 

3. Nathan Williams, Jan. 28, 1817. Vacated. 

4. Peter B. Porter, Feb. 13, 1824. Resigned. 

5. John Tracy, April 2, 1830. Resigned. 

6. William Campbell, Feb. 5, 1833. Deceased. 

7. Martin Van Buren, LL.D., Feb. 3, 1845. Resigned. 

8. Jabez D. Hammond, LL.D., May 10, 1845. Deceased. 

9. George W. Clinton, LL.D., Mar. 6. 1856. 

1. Ezra L'Hommedieu, ... April 13, 1787. Deceased. 

2. Solomon South wick, Feb. 28, 1812. Resigned. 

3. Peter Wendell, M. D., Feb. 15, 1823. Deceased. 

4. John N. Camp ■Dell, D. D., Mar. 18, 1857. Deceased. 

5. Alexander S. Johnson, LL.D.,. . . April 12, 1864. 

1. Rev. Nathan Kerr, April 13, 1787. Deceased. 

2. Lucas Elmendorf, Jan. 28, 1805. Vacated. 

3. James Thompson, Feb. 7, 1 822. Deceased 

4. John L. O'SuUivan, Feb. 2, 1846. Resigned. 

5. Erastus C. Benedict, LL. D., Mar. 22, 1855. 

1. Peter Sylveste..', April 13, 1787. Deceased 

3. Nathan Smith, Jan. 31, 1809. Vacated. 

3. Harmanus Bleecker, LL.D., Feb. 7,1822. Resigned. 

4. James McKown, April 17, 1834. Deceased. 

5. Robert Q. Rankin, Sept. 22, 1847. 

1. John Jay, LL.D., April 13, 1787. Resigned. 

S. Gulian Verplanck, Mar. 30, 1790. Deceased. 



CATALOGUE OF REGENTS. 201 

3. James Kent, LL.D., Feb. 3, 1800. Vacated. 

4. Joim Lansing, Jr., LL.D Jan. 28, 1817. Deceased. 

5. John P. Cushman, April 2, 1830. Resigned. 

6. Jolin Lorimer Graliam, April 17, 1834. Resigned 

7. George William Curtis, LL, D., . April 12, 1864. 

1. Dirck Romeyn, D. D., April 13, 1787. Resigned. 

2. James Cocliran, Feb. 18, 1796. Resigned. 

3. William A. Duer, LL.D., Feb. 1, 1820. Resigned. 

4. Robert Troup, Feb. 13, 1824. Resigned. 

5. Edward P. Livingston, Feb. 20, 1827. Resigned. 

6. John A. Dix, LL.D., Mar. 23, 1831. Resigned. 

7. Robert Campbell, Feb. 2, 1846. 

1. James Livingston, April 13, 1787. Resigned. 

2. Abraham Van Vechten, LL.D., . . Jan. 11,1797. Resigned. 

3. James King, Feb. 15, 1823. Deceased. 

4. Gideon Hawley, LL.D., . .* Feb. 1, 1842. 

1. Ebenezer Russell, o „ April 13, 1787. Resigned. 

2. John Woodworth, Mar. 3, 1813. Resigned. 

3. Samuel A. Talcott, Feb. 15, 1823. Resigned. 

4. John Keyes Paige, Mar. 31, 1829. Deceased 

5. Lorenzo Burrows, Feb. 16, 1858. 

1, Lewis Morris, April 13, 1787. Deceased. 

2.^ Simeon De Witt, Mar. 13, 1798. Deceased. 

3. Amasa J. Parker, LL.D., Jan. 20, 1835. Resigned. 

4. John V. L. Pruyn, LL.D., May 4, 1844. 

1. Matthew Clarkson, April 13, 1787. Resigned. 

3. Gulian C. Verplanck, LL.D., . . . Jan. 26, 1826. Deceased. 

3. Oswald Ottendorfer, April 14, 1870. 



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UNIVEESITT OF STATE OF NEW TOKK. 



1. Et. Rev. Benjamin Moore, D. D., April 13, 1787. Resigned 

2. Henry Rutgers, Feb. 15, 1802. Resigned. 

0. Jesse Buel, Jan. 26, 1826. Resigned. 

4. John C. Spencer, LL.D., Feb. 28, 1840. Vacated. 

5. James S. Wadsworth May 4, 1844. Deceased. 

6. Wm. H. Goodwin, D. D., LL.D., . Jan. 24, 1865. 

1. Eilardus Westerlo, D. D., April 13, 1787. Deceased. 

2. Zephaniah. Piatt, Jan. 15, 1791. Deceased. 

3. Peter Gansevoort, Jr., Feb. 11, 1808. Deceased. 

4. Smith Thompson, LL.D., Mar. 3, 1813. Resigned. 

5. Stephen Van Rensselaer, LL.D.,. Mar. 16,1819. Deceased. 

6. Joseph Russell, Feb. 18, 1839. Resigned. 

7. William C. Bouck, Feb. 3, 1845. Vacated. 

8. Samuel Luckey, D. D., May 6, 1847. Deceased. 

9. Francis Kernan, Feb. 10, 1870. 

1. Rev. Andrew King, April 13, 1787. Deceased. 

2. Martin Van Buren, LL.D., ...... Mar. 4, 1816. Resigned. 

3. Gerrit Y. Lansing, LL.D., Mar. 31, 1829. Deceased. 

4. George R. Perkins, LL.D Jan. 30, 1862. 

1. William Linn, D. D., April 13, 1787. Deceased. 

2. De Witt Clinton, LL.D., Feb. 11, 1808. Resigned. 

3. John Greig, Jan. 12, 1825. Deceased. 

4. William C. Bryant,LL.D.,L.H.D. April 15, 1858. Declined. 

5. George B. Cheever, D. D., Mar. 29, 1859. Vacated. 

6. J. Carson Brevoort, Feb. 5, 1861. 

1. Jonathan G. Tompkins, April 13, 1787. Resigned. 

2. Alexander Sheldon, Feb. 11, 1 808. Vacated. 

3. John De Witt, D. D., Jan. 28, 1817. Resigned. 

4. William L. Marcy, LL.D., ...... April 9, 1823. Resigned 

5. Benjamin F. Butler, LL.D., Feb. 14, 1829. Resigned. 

6. John L. Viele, Feb. 6, 1832. Deceased. 

7. Erastus Corning, Feb. 5, 1833. 



CATALOGUE OF EEGEXTS. 203 

1. Rev. JoTin McDonald, April 13, 1787. Resigned. 

2. Rev. Jonas Coe, Mar. 24, 1796. Declined. 

3. Rev. Thomas Ellison, Feb. 28, 1797. Deceased. 

4. Charles Selden, Feb. 18, 1803. Vacated. 

5. Samuel Young, Jan. 28, 1817. Resigned. 

6. John McLean, April 8, 1835. Deceased. 

7. Robert S. Hale, LL.D., Mar. 29, 1859. 

1. Fred. Wm. Baron De Steuben,. . April 13, 1787. Deceased. 

3. James Watson, Jan. 28, 1795. Deceased. 

3. Elisha Jenkins, Feb. 11, 1807. Deceased. 

4. Philip S. Van Rensselaer, Feb 6, 1849. Deceased. 

5. Robert Kelly, Mar. 6, 1856. Deceased. 

6. Isaac Parks, D. D., April 7, 1857. Deceased. 

7. John A. Griswold, April 29, 1869. 

Cases of resignation, 38 

Died while in office, 40 

Places vacated, 10 

Declined to accept the office, 2 

Number now in office, 19 

Total, 107 

The total is one more than the whole number of 
individuals, inasmuch as Martin Yan Buren was 
twice elected, and twice resigned. 

William C. Bryant and Rev. Jonas Coe each de- 
clined the office. 

It is a remarkable fact that Matthew Clarkson, 
who was named in the act of 1787, held the office 
thirty-nine years, and his successor, the late Yice- 
Chancellor Gulian C. Yerplanck, forty-four years. 

Prosper M. Wetmore, a regent at the present time, 
has but two predecessors, while George W. Clinton 
and Francis Kern an each have eight. 



204 UNIVEESITT OF STATE OF NEW TOEK. 

IIL Alphabetical List of Regents of tlie University, from 1784 
to 1870, with dates of accession to oflBLce. 

Thomas G. Alvord, ex-officio, 1865 

Horatio Ballard, ex-ojfido, 1862 

Abraham Bancker, May, 1784 

Francis C. Barlow, ex-officio, . , . » , . . . 1866 

Allen C. Beach, ex-officio, 1869 

John Jacob Beeckman, ex-officio,, . . . 1784 

Erastus C. Benedict, LL.D., 1855 

Egbert Benson, ex-officio, May, 1784 

Egbert Benson, LL.D., 1787 

Nathaniel S. Benton, ex-officio, 1845 

Harmanus Bleecker, LL.D., 1822 

William C. Bouck, ex-officio, 1843 

William C. Bouck, 1845 

Luther Bradish, ex-officio, 1839 

J. Carson Brevoort, 1861 

John Broome, ex-officio, 1804 

William C. Bryant, LL.D., L.H.D., ... 1858 

David Buel, 1842 

Jesse Buel, 1826 

Samuel Buel, Nov., 1784 

Lorenzo Burrows, . . . . 1858 

Benjamin F. Butler, LL.D., 1829 

John N. Campbell, D. D., 1851 

Robert Campbell, 1846 

Robert Campbell, ex-officio, 1 859 

William Campbell 1833 

George B. Cheever, D. D., ...... 1859 

Sanford E. Church, ex-officio, 1851 



CATALOGUE OF EEGENTS. 205 

Myron H. Clark, ex-officio^ 1855 

Matthew Clarkson, May, 1784, 1787 

De Witt Clinton, LL.D., 1808 

De Witt Clinton, ex-officio, 1812, 1817, 1825 
George Clinton, ex-officio,. .IIM, 1787, 1801 

George W. Clinton, LL.D.,. 1856 

James Clinton, May, 1784 

James Cochran, 1796 

John Cochran, Nov., 1784 

Rev. Jonas Coe, 1796 

Erastus Corning, 1833 

George William Curtis, LL.D., 1864 

John P. Cushman, 1830 

Joseph Delaplain, Nov., 1784 

Chauncey M. Depew, ex-officio, 1864 

John De Witt, D. D., 1817 

Simeon De Witt, 1798 

Daniel S. Dickinson, ex-qfficio, 1843 

John A. Dix, LL.D., 1831 

George J. L. Doll, Nov., 1784 

John C. Dongan, May, 1784 

James Duane, ex-officio, 1784 

William A. Duer, LL.D., 1820 

Rev. Thomas Ellison, 1797 

Lucas Elmendorf, 1805 

Reuben E. Fenton, ex-officio, 1865 

Hamilton Fish, ex-officio, 1847 

John Ganoe, Nov., 1784 

Peter Gansevoort, Jr., 1808 

Addison Gardiner, ex-officio, 1845 

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206 FNIYEESITY OF STATE OF NEW YORK. 

Harmanus Garrison, Nov., 1784 

David Gelston, ex officio^ 1785 

William H. Goodwin, D. D., 1865 

John Lorimer Graham, 1834- 

John Greig, 1825 

John A. Griswold, 1869 

John Daniel Gros, Nov., 1784 

Robert S. Hale, LL.D., 1859 

Alexander Hamilton, .NTov., 1784 

Jabez D. Hammond, LL.D., 1 845 

John Haring, May, 1784 

Robert Harpur, May, 1784 

John Hathorn, ex-officio^ 1784 

Gideon Hawley, LL.D., 1842 

Joel T. Headley, ex-officio, 1856 

Anthony Hoffman, May, 1784 

John T. Hoffman, ex-officio, 1869 

Cornelius Humfrey, May, 1784 

Washington Hunt, ex-offioio, 1851 

Washington Irving, LL.D., 1835 

John Jay, LL.D., Nov , 1784, 1787 

John Jay, ex-qfficio, 1 795 

Elisha Jenkins, 1807 

Alexander S. Johnson, LL.D., 1864 

David R. Floyd Jones, ex-officio, 1860, 1863 

Thomas Jones, Nov., 1 784 

Robert Kelly, 1856 

James Kent, LL.D., 1800 

Francis Kernan, 1570 

Rev. Nathan Kerr, Nov., 1784, 1787 



CATALOGUE OF EEGENTS. 207 

Rev. Andrew King, , . . . 1787 

James King, 1823 

John A. King, ex-officio, 1857 

Johann Ch. Kunze, ISTov., 1784 

Gerrit T. Lansing, LL.D., 1829 

John Lansing, Jr., ex-officio, 1786 

John Lansing, Jr., LL.D., 1817 

John Lawrence, Nov., 1784 

Thomas Lawrence, May, 1784 

Elias W. Leavenworth, ex-officio, 1854 

Elias W. Leavenworth, 1861 

Morgan Lewis, Nov., 1 784 

Morgan Lewis, ex-officio, 1804 

Ezra L'Hommedien, May, 1784, 1787 

William Linn, D. D., 1787 

Leonard Lispenard, Nov., 1784 

Edward P. Livingston, 1827 

Edward P. Livingston, ex-officio, 1831 

Gilbert Livingston, Nov., 1784 

Henry Brockholst Livingston, .. May, 1784 

James Livingston, May, 1784, 1787 

John H. Livingston, .Nov., 1784 

Walter Livingston, '^^y? 1*^84 

John Lloyd, Jr., Nov., 1784 

Ebenezer Lockwood, Nov., 1784 

Samuel Lnckey, D. D., 1847 

William L. Marcy, LL.D., 1823 

William L. Marcy, ex-officio, 1833 

John Mason, Nov., 1784 

John McCrea, May, 1784 



208 UNIVEESITT OF STATE OF NEW YOKK. 

Rev John McDonald, 1787 

Charles McKnight, .......... . .Nov., 1784 

James McKown, 1834 

John McLean, 1835 

Rt. Rev. Benjamin Moore, D. D., 1787 

Christopher Morgan, ex-officio, 1848 

Edwin D. Morgan, ex-officio^ 1859 

Lewis Morris, May, 1784, 1787 

Homer A. Nelson, ex-officio, 1868 

John L. O'Sullivan, 1846 

Oswald Ottendorfer, 1870 

John Keyes Paige, 1829 

Amasa J. Parker, LL.D., 1835 

Isaac Parks, D. D., . 1857 

George W. Patterson, ex-officio, 1849 

Philip Pell, Jr., May, 1784 

George R. Perkins, LL.D., 1862 

Nathaniel Pitcher, ex-officio, 1827 

Zephaniah Piatt, 1791 

Peter B. Porter, 1824 

Samuel Provost, Nov., 1784 

John Y. L. Pruyn, LL.D., 1844 

Henry S. Randall, ex-officio, 1852 

Robert G. Rankin, 1847 

Henry J. Raymond, ex-officio, 1855 

Victor M. Rice, ex-officio, 1854, 1862 

John Rodgers, D. D., Nov., 1784, 1787 

Nicholas Remain, Nov., 1784 

Thomas Romain, .... Nov., 1 784 

Dirck Romeyn, D. D., 1787 



CATALOGUE OF REGENTS. 209 

Erastus Root, ex-officio, 1823 

Ebenezer Russell, Nov., 1784, 1787 

Joseph Russell, 1839 

Henry Rutgers, 1802 

John Rutherford, Nov., 1784 

Philip Schuyler, 1787 

John Morin Scott, ex-officio, 1784 

Gershom Seixas, Nov., 1784 

Charles Selden, 1808 

Henry R. Selden, ex-offioio, 1857 

William H. Seward, ex-officio, 1839 

Horatio Seymour, ex-officio, 1853, 1863 

Alexander Shelden, , 1808 

Caleb Smith, May, 1784 

Nathan Smith, . . 1809 

Solomon Southwick, 1812 

Ambrose Spencer, LL.D., 1805 

John C. Spencer, LL.D., 1840 

Fred. Wm. Baron de Steuben, 1787 

John Suydam, , 1829 

Peter Sylvester, 1787 

Samuel A. Talcott, 1823 

James Talmadge, ex-ojjicio, 1825 

Christopher Tappen, May. 1784 

John Tayler, 1802 

John Tayler, ex-officio, 1814 

James Thompson, 1822 

Smith Thompson, LL.D., 1813 

Enos T. Throop, ex-officio, 1829, 1831 

Daniel D. Tompkins, ex-officio, 1807 

18* 



210 UNIVERSITY OF STATE OF NEW TORK. 

Jonathan G. Tompkins, 1787 

James Townsend, May, 1784 

John Tracy, 1830 

John Tracy, ex-officio, 1833 

Malachi Treat, Nov., 1784 

Robert Troup, _ 1824 

Gideon J. Tucker, ex-officio, . 1858 

Rutger Yan Brunt, May, 1784 

Martin Yan Buren, LL.D., .1816, 1845 

Martin Yan Buren, ex-officio, 1829 

Pierre Yan Cortlandt, ex-officio^ .1784, 1787 

John Yanderbilt, Nov., 1784 

Henry H. Yan Dyck, ex-officio^ 1857 

Jeremiah Yan Rensselaer, ex-officio, . . 1801 

Philip S. Yan Rensselaer, 1849 

Stephen Yan Rensselaer, ex-officio, . . . 1795 

Stephen Yan Rensselaer, LL.D., 1819 

Abraham Yan Yechten, LL.D., 1797 

Richard Yarick, ex-officio, 1787 

Gulian Yerplanck, 1790 

Gulian C. Yerplanck, LL.D., 1826 

John L. Yiele, „ 1832 

Matthew Yisscher, Nov., 1784 

James S. Wads worth, 1844 

James Watson, 1795 

Abram B. Weaver, ex-officio, 1868 

Peter Wendell, M. D., 1823 

Eilardus Westerlo, D. D., 1787 

Prosper M. Wetmore, 1833 

John Williams, May, 1784 



CATALOGUE OP EEGEISTTS. 211 

Ib^athan Williams, 1817 

Henry Wisner, May, 1784 

Stewart L. Woodford, ex-officio^ 1867 

Hunlock Woodruff, Nov., 1784 

John Woodworth, LL.D., 1813 

Silas Wright, ex-officio, 1845 

Abraham Yates, ex-officio^ 1784 

Christopher Yates, May, 1784 

Christopher P. Yates, May, 1784 

Joseph C. Yates, 1812 

Joseph C. Yates, ex-officio, 1823 

Peter W. Yates, Noy., 1784 

John Young, ex-officio, 1847 

Samuel Young, 1817 

Samuel Young, ex-officio, 1842 

W. OflBcers of the Board of Regents, from its organization, 
in 1784, to 1870 : 

Ghmicellors of the TIniversity. 

George Clinton, May 

John Jay, Jan. 

George Clinton, Feb. 

Morgan Lewis, Feb. 

Daniel D. Tompkins, Feb. 

John Tayler, Feb. 

Simeon De Witt, Mar. 

Stephen Yan Rensselaer, LL.D., .... Jan. 

James King, Feb. 

Peter Wendell, M. D., Jan. 

Gerrit Y, Lansing, LL.D., , Oct. 

John Y. L. Pruyn, LL.D., Jan. 



5 


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20 


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15 


, 1802. 


4 


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8. 


1808. 


3 


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24. 


1829. 


8 


, 1835. 


12 


, 1839. 


13. 


1842. 


31 


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9, 


1862. 



212 



UNIYEKSITT OF STATE OF NEW TOKK. 



Vice- Chancellors. 

Pierre Yan Cortlandt, May 

John Jay, July 

John Rodgers, D, D Mar. 

John Tayler, Mar. 

Simeon De Witt, Feb. 

Elisha Jenkins, Mar. 

Luther Bradish, Jan. 

Daniel S. Dickinson, Jan. 

John Greig, Jan. 

Gulian C. Verplanck, LL.D., July 

Erastus Corning, April 



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1787 


31, 


1790 


14, 


1814 


3, 


1817 


24, 


1829 


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1842 


12, 


1843 


9, 


1845 


13, 


1858 


21, 


1870 



Secretaries. 

Robert Harpur, May 5, 1784. 

Richard Harrison, LL.D., July 17, 1787. 

Nathaniel Lawrence, April 7, 1790. 

De Witt Clinton, LL.D., Jan. 21, 1794. 

David S. Jones, LL.D., Jan. 23, 1797. 

Francis Bloodgood, Mar. 19, 1798. 

Gideon Hawley, LL.D., Mar. 25, 1814. 

T. Romeyn Beck, M. D., LL.D., .... May 25, 1841. 

Samuel B. Woolworth, LL.D., Dec. 4, 1856. 



Assistant Secretary. 
Daniel J. Pratt, Jan. 12, 1866. 



BOARD OF EEGENTS, 1870. 



213 



V. Officers and Members of the Board of Regents, at tlie close 
of the Legislative Session of 1870 : 

JOHN V. L. PRUYN, LL.D., GhanceU&r. 
ERASTUS CORNING, Vice-GTiancellor. 



> JEJx-officiis. 



John T. Hoffman, LL.D., Gomrnor, 
Allen C. Beach, Lieutenant-Governor, 
Homer A. Nelson, Secretary of State, 
Abeam B. Weaver, Supt. of Pul). Ins.,^ 

Erastus Corning, 

Prosper M. Wetmore, 

Gideon Hawley, LL.D.,. . . 
John V. L. Pruyn, LL.D., . 

Robert Campbell, 

Robert G. Rankin, 

Erastus C. Benedict, LL.D. 
George W. Clinton, LL.D., 

Lorenzo Burrov^^s 

Robert S. Hale, LL.D., . . 
Elias W. Leatenworth, . 
J. Carson Brevoort, .... 
George R. Perkins, LL.D., 
Alex. S. Johnson, LL.D., . . 
George W. Curtis, LL.D., 
Wm. H.Goodwin, D.D.,LLD 

John A. Griswold, 

Francis Kernan, 

Oswald Ottendorfer, . . . 

Samuel B. Woolworth, LL.D., Secretary. 
Daniel J. Pratt, Assistant Secretary 



1833, Feb. 


5, 


Albany. 


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4, 


New York city. 


1843, Feb. 


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4, 


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1846, Feb. 


3, 


Bath. 


1847, Sept. 


22, 


Newburgh. 


, 1855, March 22, 


New York city 


1856, Marcl 


L 6, 


Buffalo. 


1858, Feb. 


16, 


Albion. 


1859, March 29, 


Elizabethtown. 


1861, Feb. 


5, 


Syracuse. 


1861, Feb. 


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Brooklyn. 


1862, Jan. 


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Utica. 


1864, April 


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Utica. 


1864, April 


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W.N.Bri'tn,S.I. 


1865, Jan. 


34, 


Clifton Springs 


1869, April 


29, 


Troy. 


1870, Feb. 


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Utica, 


1870, April 


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New York city. 



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OBSERVATIONS BY GIDEON HAWLEY, LL.D., LATE 
SECRETARY OF THE REGENTS, ON CERTAIN 
BRANCHES OP ACADEMIC INSTRUCTION. 

[These observations were made at diflferent times, commenc 
ing with an early edition of the instructions from the regents 
to the colleges and academies subject to their visitation. They 
have been enlarged and continued through all subsequent edi- 
tions, and have been revised for the present edition. The 
author was appointed secretary of the board of regents in 1814 ; 
he held that office until 1841, when he resigned it, and in 1842 
he was appointed a regent, which office he still holds ; he has 
therefore now (1870) been connected with the board of regents, 
first, as its secretary, and then as one of its members, for fifty- 
gix years. When he became secretary all the books and papers 
belonging to the office, received by him from his predecessor, 
were contained in a trunk so small that he carried it under his 
arm to his own office — little anticipating that he should ever 
live to see the books and papers of the same office requiring 
such a room as is now occupied for their accommodation. 

The author, relying on his personal knowledge, extending 
back for more than half a century, avails himself of the present 
occasion to compare, or rather contrast, the official services 
of the board of regents fifty years ago with what they now 
are; and the number and condition of the academies, subject 
to visitation in 1814, with their present number and condition. 

In 1814, and for a few years thereafter, the regents, in pre- 
paring their annual reports to the legislature, gave no statistical 
infonnation of the condition of the institutions subject to their 



ACADEMIC INSTEUCTIOX. 225 

visitation, because no sucli information liad been communicated 
to tliem by these institutions, none having been required by 
any forms of reports prescribed by the regents, or by any in- 
structions. 

The annual reports of the regents, for thirty years past, 
are contained in printed volumes, averaging about four hun- 
dred pages octavo. They abound in statistical information, 
showing the relative condition of the several colleges and 
academies subject to visitation, in respect to their corporate 
property, their annual revenue and expenditure, the debts due 
from them, the subjects of study taught, with the text-books 
used, the professorships established, the number of teachers 
and their salaries, with the number and classification of the 
scholars taught. The materials for the report of the regents 
are derived from subordinate reports, annually made to 
them, from the several colleges and academies, according to 
forms prescribed and instructions given by the regents ; and 
io respect to academies, the forms prescribed by the regents 
require annual returns of various matters not above enumer- 
ated, with a specification of the studies pursued by each one 
of more than twenty thousand* students ordinarily claimed 
to be classical students, or students in the higher branches 
of an English education. In making out such annual reports 
of the regents, all the subordinate reports of the colleges and 
academies, and more especially those of academies (which 
are claimants of distributive shares in $40,000 annually 
apportioned among them), have to be scrutinized with the 
greatest care, requiring months of labor, as may be seen by 
any one who will critically examine the reports of the 



* This number has for some years been reduced about one-half by the 
operation of the preliminary academic examinations in writing insti- 
tuted by the Regents, though the labor expended upon the reports, to 
say nothing of the conduct of the examinations, has been greatly in- 
creased. 



226 APPENDIX. 

regents as published by the legislature. The reports thus 
published are sent annually to all the colleges and academies, 
and the writer of these remarks, speaking from actual 
observation and experience while he has been connected 
with the board of regents, feels thereby warranted in saying 
that the distribution of the annual reports of the regents, 
thus made, by enabling every college and academy to com- 
pare itself, in the most important particulars, with every 
other kindred institution, and thereby to discover its own 
deficiencies, and finally (sooner or later), to supply them, has 
contributed to the growth and prosperity of the institutions 
subject to visitation, and especially to the growth and pros- 
perity of academies, more than all other causes combined. 

For many years past, the regents have, by their committees, 
or by their secretary, personally visited many of the acade- 
mies, and all the colleges in the State subject to visitation ; 
and their practice has been attended with the most beneficial 
results ; and if, as there is ground to hope will be the case, it 
be continued and extended to all institutions in the State 
annually, or even biennially, it will be a cause of their pros- 
perity next in efficiency, if not equal to, the cause last above 
mentioned. 

In 1814, the number of academies subject to visitation by the 
regents, and making arfnual reports to them, was only twenty. 
The number subject to such visitation and making such reports 
for 1869, was one hundred and ninety-five. The reports made at 
the former period occupied only a few lines, and simply stated 
the number of scholars in the different classes, without show- 
ing the extent of their studies or any thing else of like import- 
ance. Their report did not contain the one-hundredth part of 
what is now required to be contained, and is in fact contained 
in the annual reports of our academies as nov/ made. 

The writer hopes it will not bg thought out of time or place 
for him to make a single remark, warranted by his personal 
knowledge ; that during the whole time (now more than half 



ACADEMIC INSTEUCTION. 227 

a cen ury) of his connection witli tlie board, The Regents of tlie 
University of the State of New Tork^ with a name and legal 
character of high import, have been quiet and unpretending in 
all their proceedings, never courting the popular breeze to 
excite public sensation, but being, as all men ever ought to be, 
satisfied with tlie mens conscia recti, leaving it for Time, the 
sovereign Truth Teller of this world, to make up its record of 
their merits or demerits. Q. H.] 

In the preceding editions of these instructions, the 
Secretary of the University, availing himself of the 
opportunities they presented for cultivating a more 
intimate relation, and establishing a more enlarged 
correspondence with the academies addressed by him, 
invited the special attention of -their trustees and 
teachers to certain suggestions or inquiries, arranged 
under the following general heads : 

Extent of Elementary Studies. 

There is reason to believe that in some academies 
the elementary branches of education, such as read- 
ing and writing, considered as arts to be perfected 
by practice, and orthography, considered as a subject 
of knowledge to be acquired by study, are practically, 
if not avowedly, treated as matters of too humble a 
rank for academic study ; it being understood to be 
presumed that such inferior branches of education 
have been sufficiently attended to in common schools, 
whose peculiar province it is to instruct in them. 
And such a presumption must be admitted to be 
reasonable to a certain extent ; as all students who 



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228 APPENDIX. 

are pursuing studies appropriate for an academy must 
of necessity have passed through the customary 
course of a common school education, in which read- 
ing, writing and spelling must have formed a neces- 
sary part. But it does not therefore follow that these 
elementary branches of education are not to be any 
longer cultivated in academies; for whatever pro- 
ficiency in them may have been made by scholars in 
the early stages of their education, if their knowledge 
be not kept alive and matured by repeated exercise 
during almost the whole period of their minority, they 
will probably lose much of the benefit of their early 
acquirements. In this view of the subject, it becomes 
desirable that the trustees should state in their report 
how far exercises in reading, writing and spelling are 
required of the higher classes in their academy. The 
information desired can readily be obtained from 
their teachers, and it is hoped it will not be withheld, 
either on account of the trouble of procuring it, or 
any supposed immateriality of it when procured.* 



* In some of our best academies, exercises in spelling are re- 
quired as a part of the regular course of study in the lower 
departments, and as often as at least once a week in the higher 
departments. Reading and writing are also particularly 
attended to, especially the latter ; as a good handwriting, 
whether considered as a polite accomplishment, or a practical 
art,, in creases in value as society advances in civilization and 
refinement. Considered as an art, the demand for it in this 
country is already so great that it will at any time supply to 
its possessor (in case his other reliances fail him) the place of 
an actual capital, yielding a competent and respectable liveli- 



ACADEMIC HSrSTRUCTION. 229 

Pronunciation of the English Language. 
The trustees or teachers of academies are also 
requested to state in their report, what degree of 
attention is paid in their academy to the correct pro- 
nunciation of tlie English language, and what stand- 
ard of pronunciation is adopted by them. If the 
established rules of pro7iunciation he taught theoreti- 
cally^ and all errors in the practical application of 
them occurring in the ordinary recitations of scholars^ 
and in their daily intercourse with their teachers^ he 
promptly and openly corrected as often as they occur y 
atid especially if such a course he pursued, where it is 
Qnost needed, in the use of proper names of persons 
and places, there is no doubt that every scholar of 
ordinary aptitude for learning would, in an ordinary 
course of academic education, acquire a practical 
knowledge of correct pronunciation, which, growing 
finally into a habit, he would carry with him through 
life. Such an acquisition would certainly be of great 
value, although, if gained in the way here suggested, 
it would cost nothing in money, and very little in 
time ; and scholars thus educated would not exhibit 
(what has sometimes been witnessed in others to the 
great disparagement of their teachers) the discredit- 
able contrast of being always able, and sometimes 
ambitious to detect the slightest shade of errors in 



hood. The saving" of time in reading what is well, compared 
with what is poorly written, is so great, that it is considered 
good economy to pay an extra sum for good writing. 
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230 APPENDIX. 

quantity or accent of Latin or Greek words, which 
they will probably seldom, if ever, have occasion to 
use in after life ; while they are unable to detect iu 
others, and commit daily themselves, the grossest 
errors in the pronunciation of words in their own 
language of the most daily use. 

Subjects of Study. 

In respect to the subjects of study proper to be 
taught in academies, the secretary, without pretend- 
ing to claim any right to speak authoritatively, and 
certainly without wishing to obtrude his own opinion 
on others, hopes it will not be thought either out of 
time or place for him to suggest, that, as the current 
of public sentiment has, for many years, been set- 
ting gradually but irresistibly in favor of a course 
of education more and 7nore practical than any before 
established, it would be desirable, as it would tend to 
promote the popular cause of practical education, if 
the trustees and teachers of academies were to state 
whether, in the course of instruction established by 
them (particularly in reference to students who are 
not expected to extend their studies beyond the 
limits of an ordinary academic education), any, and 
what,. discrimination is made by them, in the various 
subjects of academic study, between what is most 
and what is least practical. '^ 

* The reports of recent years bear gratifying evidence tliat 
the above suggestions bave exerted the desired influence, many 
studies having been introduced into the academies which have 
a direct bearing on the pursuits of practical life. 



ACADEMIC INSTKUCTIOIS^. 231 

Physical Education. 

Education, considered in its most extensive sense, 
that of being a process for improving individuals of 
the human species, to the full extent of their capa- 
bilities, includes j)hysical as well as intellectual and 
moral improvement. According to the best estab- 
lished theories on the subject, education is held to 
be properly divisible, and is now commonly divided 
into three great departments, distinguished in refer- 
ence to their different subject matters, as physical^ 
moral^ and intellectual. Of these several depart- 
ments, the intellectual being considered the most 
appropriate, if not the most important, for public in- 
struction, has always received, and will doubtless 
continue to receive in all public institutions, much 
the greatest share of public attention. Until recent- 
ly, indeed, in most of our academies, as well as col- 
leges, intellectual was cultivated to the almost total 
neglect oi physical^ if not of moral education. But 
since the principles of physiology, as applied to the 
human system, have been more thoroughly investi- 
gated, and their value more generally and justly ap- 
preciated, physical education^ which depends on the 
knowledge of such principles, has risen in public 
estimation to a much higher rank than it formerly 
held. A knowledge of the laws of health or the 
means of preserving it, which was once chiefly con- 
fined and thought properly to belong to physicians 
only, has finally found its way into many of our pub- 



232 APPENDIX. 

lie schools, where it is now eailtivated as a regular 
branch of public instruction. 

To cure disease is admitted to be the 'peculiar office 
of a physician ; and no encroachment on his profes- 
sional province in that respect is intended or ought 
to be allowed ; but to prevent disease, which ordin- 
arily consists only in knowing and obeying the laws 
of health, or in fulfilling the conditions prescribed 
for its enjoyment, is not a matter of like professional 
or exclusive monopoly. Nor is it so considered by 
physicians, many of whom are among the most 
strenuous advocates for making physiology, and 
particularly that part of it which relates to the laws 
of health, or the means of securing and preserving 
the human system in its best possible condition, a 
subject of regular study in all our institutions for pub- 
lic instruction. And so general has public sentiment 
now become in favor of such a study, that nothing 
but a want of suitable text-books has prevented its 
general introduction into our public schools.* 

In view of such considerations, it becomes desira- 
ble to ascertain what degree of attention is paid in 
any of our academies to physical education, consid- 
ered with special reference to health, or to the best pos- 
sible development of the corporal or animal functions. 



* This was true when these instructions were written more 
than twentj-five years since ; there is now no want of suitable 
text-books, and the study of physiology and hygiene has been 
introduced into most of the academies. 



ACADEMIC INSTEirCTION". 233 

The trustees or teachers of academies are therefore 
requested to communicate, in theii future reports to 
the regents, the information desired on the subject 
iibove proposed, particularly in so far as it relates to 
ventilation of school rooms, corporeal position of 
scholars in school, and gymnastic or other exercises 
out of school, etc. 

The teachers of some academies, while professing 
to furnish the information as above requested, have 
described the peculiar advantages, or facilities, for 
ventilation which their school rooms possessed, with- 
out stating the important fact, whether and how they 
practically avail themselves of such advantages or 
facilities. That it mtay be seen what importance is 
attached to such matters elsewhere, the following 
extract from the regulations or instructions estab- 
lished for the government of a normal school of 
distinguished celebrity at Edinburgh, is subjoined. 

" Great attention should be given to the ventilation 
of school rooms, so that on no account, even for a 
few minutes, their inmates shall breathe bad air. 
The privileges and advantages of ventilation must 
be dwelt on ; the temperature of school rooms must 
be attended to ; there must be no constrained posture 
either in standing or sitting ; no injury to the spine 
by want of back supjDort in sitting ; and no confine- 
ment for more than an hour at a time without exer- 
cise in th'e open air, with the benefit of rotary swings 
and other safe gymnastics ; rooms, when empty, to 

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234 APPENDIX. 

be well aired by cross windows ; and such airing to 
be repeated hourly when practicable."* 

These regulations are minute, and may at first 
view appear unimportant ; but not so, it is believed, 
after further reflection. The importance of ventila- 
tion, especially, cannot well be overrated. It is a 

* In one of tlie academies of the city of Albany, the trustees, 
some years since, established the following regulations on the 
subject of ventilating their school rooms, which have ever since 
been strictly enforced, and with the most beneficial results : " It 
shall be the duty of the steward to see that the whole academy 
edifice be kept at all times ventilated in the best practicable 
manner, and to secure such ventilation, which the trustees con- 
sider of the first importance, it is hereby made the special duty 
of the steward (until a suitable ventilator through the ceiling 
and roof, above the upper hall, shall be constructed), to lower 
or cause to be lowered, after the exercise of each day shall be 
closed, as well in the winter as in the summer season, an upper 
sash of one or more of the windows in each of the rooms in 
the academy which shall have been occupied during the day, 
and to cause the same to be kept so lowered during the summer 
season for the whole night, except in rainy, or other unsuitable 
weather, and in other seasons of the year to cause the same 
to be kept so lowered for at least an hour each day, and at all 
times, when the weather will permit, to keep the upper sash 
of one or more of the windows in the chapel (being an upper 
room) down both night and day, and also to keep, during the 
day time in the summer season, and whenever the weather 
will permit in other seasons of the year, the front or outward 
door, opening into the lower hall, open by fastening the same 
back, and also to keep one of the sashes in the windows of the 
halls above, either up or down, so as to admit of the constant 
entrance of fresh air." 



ACADEMIC INSTEUCTIOJSr. 235 

subject which has recently attracted much public 
attention, both in this and in other countries, and it 
is now undergoing a course of investigation and 
discussion which is expected to lead to the most 
beneficial results. 

Extent of Study Memoriter^ or by Mote. 

To suffer a pupil to learn the demonstration of a 
mathematical theorem by rote, which is a mere 
artificial drill on the memory, without the exercise 
of the understanding, would be condemned as absurd. 
Oh the other hand, to require a pupil, in adding or 
multiplying numbers in arithmetical operations, to 
rely on his understanding solely, without any aid 
from artificial memory, in the use of addition or 
multiplication tables, would be equally absurd. 
Hence, it is plain that some subjects of study must be 
addressed chiefly to the understanding, while others 
require only the aid of memory. To the former 
class, belong all cases involving any process of 
reasoning. And of a kindred, although not of the 
same character, are all such matters as, being con- 
nected by certain affinities, may at once, when 
learned in that connection, be recalled to mind by a 
principle of association, which in such cases supplies 
the place of artificial memory. To the other class, 
that of things required to be learned by rote, belong 
all isolated facts as well as ultimate principles. And 
if, for the purpose of securing a more ready com- 
mand over them, we treat as belonging to the same 
class many facts not wholly isolated, as well as many 



236 APPENDIX. 

principles not strictly ultimate, we shall probably 
find it tend much more to effect our object, than to 
depend for their remembrance in time of need on 
the uncertain power of recollecting them from their 
relations to other things ; for it will be found that, 
in proportion as such facts and principles have been 
learned by rote in early life, so will commonly be their 
subserviency to practical purposes in after life. Let 
any one of mature age undertake to estimate the 
value of having a ready command over such facts 
and principles, and, unless his early education shall 
have been different from the common com-se, he will 
regret that his store of them is not more abundant ; 
and if it were possible for him to recall and revise 
what is past, it cannot be doubted, that to enlarge 
that store would be among the first acts of his revis- 
ion. How many matters once well understood in 
their rationale^ but long since forgotten, he would 
make the subjects of study by rote, reiterating their 
impression on his memory for the same reason, if not 
to the same extent, as in early life he did the common 
addition and multiplication tables, or the common 
rules in grammar and arithmetic. How industrious 
would he be in treasuring up for future use such 
matters as the specific gravity of bodies, their constit- 
uent parts and proportions, with other like important 
truths in chemistry and physics, the leading dates 
and events in history, topographical statistics, with 
many other matters alike important for future refer- 
ence. Nor would he, in laying up such a store of 



ACADEMIC INSTEUCTION. 23 T 

knowledge, fail to include in it some of the leading 
principles of science; such, for example, as the 
universal law of gravity — attraction directly as qua?i' 
tity of matter, and inversely as the square of dis- 
tance; or the law of falling bodies — spaces described as 
the squares of the times being for the first second of 
time 163^ fi^i ; or the fundamental principle in 
mechanics — equality of products from moving looioer 
and resisting loeight midtiplied each into its own 
'velocity ; or separately — momentum, as quantity of 
matter multiplied into its velocity / and such also as 
the important law of fluids — pressure as depth inde- 
pendent of breadth, with resistance to moving 
bodies as the square of their velocities / or sucli as 
the sublime discovery in astronomy, planets all mov- 
ing in elliptical orbits, the radius vector of each 
describing equal areas in equal times, with the squares 
of their periodic times as the cubes of their mean 
distances from the sun. How greatly to be desired 
would be a knowledge of such principles always at 
command ; and yet, if we depend for our knowledge 
on having once demonstrated them, how^ frail will be 
the dependence ! how transient the knowledge ! While, 
on the other hand, if such knowledge be artificially 
impressed on the memory, like that of other things 
learned in early life by rote, how lasting it becomes ! 
The demonstration of the principle may long since 
have been forgotten, but the principle itself will 
remain. 



238 APPENDIX. 

From a course of remarks similar to the albove, in 
a former edition of these instructions, it was, as I 
have been informed, inferred by some under whose 
notice the remarks happened to fall, that the writer 
of them intended to recommend study by rote, in 
preference to study by demonstration ; thus exalting 
the faculty of memory to the debasement of that of 
the understanding. And it must be admitted that, 
from certain unqualified expressions inadvertently 
used on that occasion, such an inference would seem 
to be in some measure warranted. But no such war- 
rant was intended to be given nor was such inference 
foreseen. The writer w^ould hope to be among the 
last to disparage intelligent study, or to enlarge the 
province of memory by encroaching on that of the 
understanding. The only position intended to be 
taken by him w^as simply this, that there are many 
principles which, being once learned from demonstra- 
tion, ought to be afterward inculcated by rote, not 
that they were to be originally learned in that way, 
but only so inculcated after first being demonstrated 
in the ordinary way. 

The position, thus qualified and explained, is still 
maintained, and may, I think, be easily defended. 
Let us illustrate it by a few practical cases. Suppose 
it to be required to compute the superficial areas of 
different figures ; how^ important to have at comm^and 
the principles upon which the computation depends; 
such as the area of a parallelogram being equal to 
the product of its base into its altitude ; of a triangle 



ACADEMIC INSTEUCTIOX. 239 

to one-half such product ; of a circle to the product 
of one-half its radius into its circumference ; and of 
a sphere to four times that product. So if we wish 
to compare the areas of different figures, how desira- 
ble to know that the areas of all similar figures are 
as the squares of their corresponding or homologous 
sides ; or if it be required to compute the solid con- 
tents of bodies, how convenient to be able to apply 
at once the principles of the computation, such as 
a cone being one-third of a cylinder of the same 
base and altitude ; a sphere two-thirds of a cylinder 
circumscribed around it and having the same altitude ; 
with innumerable other cases of a similar character. 
Or if we change the field of illustration from geome- 
try to physics, we shall find equally striking instances 
in support of the same position ; such, for example, as 
the case of a traveler desirous to measure the depth 
of a precipice on the top of which he stands. How 
important, for that purpose, that he should know, 
without recourse to books, that if he drop a stone it 
will fall sixteen feet the first second, forty-eight the 
next, and so on, the spaces described being always as 
the squares of the times of descent ; so that if he 
have with him a watch beating seconds, or, for want 
of that, if he refer to the beating of his own pulse, 
in an ordinary state, he can ascertain with sufiicient 
accuracy the depth of the precipice to be measured. 
Again, if we are acquainted with the specific gravities 
of different bodies, and have the knowledge so stored 
in the memory as to be always available, how con- 



240 APPENDIX. 

venient it would be for practical application in esti 
mating the weight of stone, iron, etc. Or, to be 
more particular, suppose a traveler wishes to ascer- 
tain the height of a mountain he is about to ascend. 
If he has had the good fortune to learn and retain in 
memory the specific gravity of mercury and atmos- 
pheric air, he will, on comparing them, find the 
former about 12,000 times heavier than the latter, 
from which he will at once infer that one inch of 
mercury is equal in weight to 12,000 inches of air; 
or, in other words, that a fall of one inch in his bar- 
ometer indicates an ascent of 12,000 inches, or 1,000 
feet, up the mountain.* 

To illustrate the value of knowledge at command, 
I will only refer to one other case, that of ascertain- 
ing heights and distances from the sphericity of the 
earth. A single mile of even surface, such as that 
of water, curvates from a straight line drawn as a 
tano-ent to that surface, eight inches ; two miles, 
thirty-two inches ; three miles, seventy-two inches, 
or six feet ; the curvation being, for moderate dis 
tances, as their squares, or nearly so. Hence, if we 
are acquainted with the simple principle here stated, 
we may measure heights by distances, and distances 
by heights, with only one of them given or ascer- 
tained ; and if our knowledge of the principle be 
always at command, how convenient it would be for 



* What is here stated is not given with scientific precision, 
but only as an approximation to it in round numbers. 



ACADEMIC INSTEUCTION. 241 

practical use when a ship at sea first discovers the 
top of a mountain, light-house, or other object of 
known elevation ; for by knowing its elevation, its 
distance may be at once ascertained ; so if the dis- 
tance be known, the elevation of the mountain may 
be in the like manner ascertained. 

The principle involved in all cases referred to in 
the preceding remarks in defense of the position 
there assumed, ought, I admit, to be demonstrated, 
so far as it may be demonstrable, by every student, 
on his first undertaking to learn it ; and he should be 
kept to the demonstration until he fully comprehends 
it. But after that is done, I hold,^nd have in the 
preceding remarks endeavored to show, that the 
principle itself, without the demonstration, should be 
inculcated on the memory in the same manner as if 
it were to be learned only by rote. Demonstrations 
in their best form are too complex, and in their com- 
mon form too artificial, to be long retained in 
memory; but principles, abstracted from their 
demonstrations, and expressed with suitable concen- 
tration of thought and language, are not more diffi- 
cult to be learned and retained by rote than most 
other things which it is common to learn and retain 
in that way. Take, for example, the principle 
involved in one of the cases above referred to, that 
of measuring heights and distances from the sphericity 
of the earth. The demonstration of the principle 
would occupy considerable time, and require much 

thought, but the principle itself may be concentrated 
21 



2 42 APPENDIX. 

almost to a point, sucli as : the surface of the earth 
curvates from any given point^according to the square 
of the distance^ heing for a single 7hile eight inches. 
The demonstration of such principle would be diffi- 
cult for most persons to retain long in memory, 
but the principle itself being once learned by rote, 
nothing would be easier than to retain it ; it would 
indeed remain of itself, like every thing else which 
becomes habitual or involuntary. 

The chief object of the preceding remarks is to 
present for the consideration of academic teachers 
what is thought to be an important subject,. and to 
invite them in their future reports to communicate, 
as mere matter of fact, how far the mode of instruc- 
tion pursued by them is in accordance with the prin- 
ciples involved in these remarks. 

Composition as a Scholastic Mcercise. 

Composition is an exercise requiring two different 
operations of the mind — originating or carrying on 
a train of thought, and expressing it in language. 
How intimately these operations are connected, and 
how wonderfully they act and react on each other, it 
is not here proposed to inquire; all I propose now to 
do is to offer a few remarks on composition, consid- 
ered ill reference merely to language. 

Language, in whatever point of light it may be 
considered, resolves itself ultimately into the use of 
outward signs for expressing inward thought or 
feeling ; words being nothing but signs, and their 
meaning the things signified. In reading printed, or 



ACADEMIC IXSTEUCTIO.V. 243 

hearing spoken language, which is more or less the 
daily occupation of almost every person, we are con- 
stantly passing from the sign to the thing signified, 
from words to their meaning ; and hence we become 
so familiar with their connection in that order where 
the sign is first presented, and the mind always passes 
from that to the thing signified, that we are never 
embarrassed in the ordinary exercise of reading 
written, or hearing spoken language. A man of 
common education will read a common English book 
a whole day, without being at a loss for the meaning 
of a single word in it. The reason undoubtedly is, 
that during his early education, it was his daily 
practice to learn, ^nd in after life to apply words and 
their meaning in the order in which they are always 
presented in reading. But how immeasurably dif- 
ferent with the same man (supposing him to be of 
the ordinary class), is the same exercise when reversed 
— that is, when he is required to pass from the thing 
signified to the sign — from thought to language or 
expression — which constitutes the whole exercise of 
composition, as we are now considering it. He 
hesitates — is embarrassed — and at a loss at every 
step he takes ; not because he is ignorant of the 
meaning of words, or of their connection, considered 
as signs, with thought, as the thing signified ; but 
because he is not familiar with that connection pre- 
sented in that order, where the idea or thing signified 
comes first, and the word or sign of it last. Only 
give him the sign first, and he passes instantly to the 



244 APPENDIX. 

thing signified, because he is daily accustomed to 
such an operation — to seeing words or hearing sounds, 
and connecting them with their appropriate meaning. 

To show how much depends on the order in which 
we are accustomed to learn things, we have only to 
refer to our knowledge of the commom alphabet, 
where we shall find every thing depending on the 
order in which its letters have been learned. If we 
repeat them in their accustomed order, we run through 
them with the greatest ease and rapidity; but on 
reversing that order and attempting to repeat the 
letters backward, we meet with the greatest embar- 
rassment; and yet there is nothing in the nature of 
the letters making them easier to learn or repeat in 
one order than in another. Each order is in itself 
arbitrary ; for if we make ourselves as familiar with 
the letters in their reversed as in their direct order, 
we find it as easy to say them backward as forward. 
And so it is with language ; if we can make ourselves 
as familiar with the connection between words and 
ideas in the reversed as in the direct order, we shall 
find as little difticulty in passing from one to the 
other, in one order as another. 

Since, then, so much depends on the order in which 
we are accustomed to consider words and ideas, it 
would seem to be reasonable to conclude that in pro- 
portion as we become familiar with that order, as it 
always occurs in composition, will be our facility in 
composing; and that if we can become as familiar 
with the exercise of composing for ourselves, as we 



A.CADEMIC INSTKUCTION. 245 

are with readiDg what is composed by others, we 
may (having reference only to language) perform one 
<5peration as easily as the other. Assuming such a 
conclusion to be well founded, how can we best ac- 
complish so desirable an object — that of making 
ourselves a? familiar with composition as with read- 
ing? Shall we require more frequent exercises in 
composition, in which the student is always to find 
ideas, and then signs or words to express them ? 
That would tend directly to accomplish the object ; 
and where there is no want of ideas, and no reluct- 
ance to undertake the written expression of them, no 
better means of accomplishment can be used. But 
are such means ordinarily the best that can be 
applied? The youthful mind is commonly more re- 
luctant to engage in exercises of composition, than 
in any thing else required to be done. And why is 
it so? They who have no want of ideas, and know 
how to express them, feel no such reluctance. On 
the contrary, they are often ambitious to give body 
and form to their conceptions, either in written or 
spoken language. The reluctance, then, must proceed 
either from paucity of ideas or inability to express 
them; from want of thought or ignorance of lan- 
guage, or from both causes combined. The latter is 
probably the most common source of reluctance, and 
we shall accordingly so consider it. The question 
then arises, what are the bi-st means of supplying 
such defect or want of thought, and of imparting the 
requisite knowledge of language ? Without under- 
21* 



246 APPENDIX. 

taking to enumerate all the means that may be used 
for such a purpose, I will only here specify two of 
them — translation from a dead or foreign language 
into our own, and analysis of English text-books. 
These I consider to be the most leading and import- 
ant means, not only to remove the reluctance above 
noticed, and thereby to gain indirectly the principal 
end above proposed, but also to subserve that end 
directly. This may, I think, be shown by the follow- 
ing summary views, which might be greatly ampli- 
fied, if space would permit. 

In translating from another into our own language, 
the first step in the process is to find out the thought 
or idea to be translated. When that is done, the 
next step is, or at least should be^ to find English 
words best fitted, and to collate or arrange them in 
the order best calculated, to express the translated 
idea, according to the true spirit or idiom of the 
English language. Here, then, we have an operation 
directly the reverse of that which occurs in reading 
from our own language. Instead of passing from 
words to ideas — from the sign to the thing signified, 
which is all that we do in reading — we do, in the 
exercise or act of translation, necessarily pass from 
ideas to words — from the thing signified to the sign, 
thus becoming as familiar with their connection, 
when viewed in the reversed^ as we were before in the 
direct order. Now such a reversed view is what is 
always required to be taken in every exercise in 
composition ; and in proportion to our familiarity 
with such a view, will be our facility in composing 



ACADEMIC INSTEUCTION. 247 

In short, to sum up the whole matter in the fe-west 
possible words, trayislation from one language into 
another is, in respect to its influence on the power of 
expressing thought in the language to which it is 
converted, a continued process of composition in the 
latter language. It is not merely equivalent to such 
a process, but is such a process itself. Here^ then, 
probably lies the chief, or one of the chief benefits 
derivable from the study of the Latin and Greek 
languages. They furnish the most abundant and 
variegated store of ideas, and at the same time the 
collocation of their words is so radically different 
from ours, that the translation of them into our own 
language serves the purpose of improvement in 
English composition, in the same manner and to the 
same extent as the exercise of clothing or expressing 
an original idea in its appropriate English language. 
In view of this latter source of benefit from the 
study of Latin and Greek, what are we to think of 
the practice tolerated, if not encouraged, in some of 
our academies, of allowing students in those Ian. 
guages to consult, ad libitum, translations of the 
books read by them? What else caa we think of it, 
than that it tends to defeat one of the chief and 
most rational objects that can be proposed in such a 
study — that of improving the inventive faculty in 
the expression of thought ? How much less irration- 
al is it, than to give to a student a subject for his 
exercise in composition, and then to write it out for 
him ? What is it, in short, but giving him at once 



248 APPENDIX. 

both a sign and the thmg signified, without requir- 
ing or allowing any exercise of his own faculties ? 

In common conversation, and in all extemporary 
addresses, the speaker always passes from thought to 
expression — from the thing signified to its sign — 
and like translation from one language to another, it 
is a continued process of composition in the language 
used by the speaker; and it may be made subservient 
to like improvement ; but it is commonly conducted 
with much less care than formal translations from one 
language to another, under a teacher who requires 
the translation to be according to the idiom of the 
language in which improvement is sought. 

Literal translations according to the idiom of the 
translated language are, I believe, preferred by some 
teachers; but such translations certainly ought not 
to supersede free translations according to the idiom 
of our own language. 

The analysis of English text-books may be so con- 
ducted, as to subserve the purposes of improvement 
in English composition, in much the same manner, 
and for the same reasons, as translation from a foreign 
lano:uao:e into our own. The text-book furnishes a 
train of thought, expressed in language more or less 
peculiar to each author, and if the student be 
required to express the same thought in his own 
language, to borrow only the author's ideas, but not 
his woids, he will necessarily exercise his mind in 
finding signs or words for ideas — that is, in passing 
from the thing signified to the sign, in much the 



ACADEMIC INSTEFCTION. 249 

same manner as if he were translatino- a foreiarn into 
his native language, or clothing an original idea in 
its appropriate words. If such be a correct view of 
the case, how much to be condemned must that prac- 
tice or mode of instruction be, which allows a student, 
in analyzing a text-book, to use in all cases the 
language of its author, or which does not admonish 
him of his error, when he does so use it. 

G. H.* 



* Mr, Hawley's decease occurred on the morning of July 17, 
1870, just as these pages were ready for the press. 

The death of Mr. Robert Campbell, also a member of the 
Board of Regents since 1846, occurred on the same day. 



INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Aonott's Teacher, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Abercrombie on the Intellectual Powers, recommended for academy- 
libraries, 94 

on the moral feelinsfg, recommended for academy libraries, 94 

Academic instruction, observations on certain branches of, by Gideon 

Hawley, LL.D 224-249 

(See Observations.) 

year, date of close of, to be fixed by trustees, 30 

scholars, defined, 82 

Academical departments of union free schools, authorized to be 

established, IT, 18 

subject to visitation of the regents, 18 

qualifications for entrance to, 28 

existing academies may be adopted as, 18 

entitled to all the benefits ana privileges of academies, 18 

application to be received under visitation, form of, 76, 77 

no general provision of law in regard to corporate names of, 223 

Academies, how incorporated, 10 

may be incorporated under general law, 20 . 

(See Incorporation.) 

property of incorporated, vested in the trustees, 10 

corporate names of, to be such as are designated in the applica- 
tions for incorporation, 10 

applications to the regents for the incorporation of, to be made 

in writing and to set forth certain facts, 10 

vested with general powers of corporations under the Revised 

Statutes, 11 

founded on capital stock, conditions of incorporation of, by the 

regents, 15, 16 

not allowed to pay dividends to stockholders while there is anj^ 

outstanding indebtedness, 16 

charters of, subject to alteration, amendment or repeal by the 

regents, in certain cases, 16 

charters of, granted by the regents, with applications for the 
same, to be recorded in the office of the secretary of said re- 
gents, 16 

charters, etc., of, recorded in office of secretary of state, to be 

also recorded in office of secretary of regents, 17 

may be adopted as academical departments of union free schools, 18 

powers and duties of trustees of, 23-29 

under act of April 13, 1787, 187-192 

no religious qualification to be required of any officer or member 

of incorporated, 29 

no professor or tutor to be a trustee of, 29 

no principal or president to vote in regard to his own salary, etc., 29 
termination of academic year to be declared on minutes of trust- 
ees, 30 



252 ^ INDEX. 



Academies, annual reports of, to he transmitted to the regents on or 

hefore the first of November, 31 

to be attested by oath, ... 31 

to contain names and ages of all pupils, 31 

statement of studies pursued, 31 

estimated value of library, apparatus, etc., 31 

names and compensation of teachers, 31 

account of funds, etc., 31 

statement of property, and of literary and scientific con- 
dition, duly authenticated, 78-81 

form of annual reports of, 104-124 

annual apportionment of income of literature and U, S. deposit 

funds to be made to, on certain conditions, .... 32, 33 

requisite value of buildings, library and apparatus, to participate 

in distribution of literature fund, 33, 34 

receiving $TOO or more from the literature fund, required to estab- 
lish and maintain a department for the instruction of common 

school teachers, 33, 34 

required to apply moneys received from the literature fund to the 

payment of teachers' salaries, 34 

appropriations to, for purchase of books and apparatus, con- 
ditions of, 34, 35 

regents authorized to grant relief to, in certain cases, 35 

schedule of distribution to, to be filed with the comptroller, 34 

comptroller to draw warrants on treasurer in favor of, 34 

annual distribution to, etc., to be reported by the regents to the 

legislature, .... 35, 36 

appropriations to, for instruction of teachers' classes, 38, 39 

for instruction in physiology and the laws of health, 38, 39 

trustees of, required to furnish satisfactory evidence to the 
regents, that etachers' classes have been thoroughly in- 
structed, 39 

required to furnish to comptroller, certificates that members 
of teachers classes intend to follow the business ot teaching, 39 

duty of, in regard to paying salaries due to teachers, 103 

how made colleges, under act of April 13, 1787, 191 

Academy at Little Falls, location, etc., of 216 

Academy of Dutchess county, locaticm, etc., of, 216 

Acts of May 1. and November 26, 1784, repealed 192, 193 

Adams' (Hannah) View of all Religions, recommended for academy 

libraries, 91 

Adams, Hiram, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Adams' Roman Antiquities, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Addison's Works, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Addison academy and union school, location, etc., of, 216 

Adelphi academy of Brookl}'n, location, etc., of, 216 

./Eneid, study of, a requisite for classical scholarship in academies, .. 32 

Affidavit, annual reports of academies to be verified by, 31 

form of, in case of application for an appropriation for books and 

apparatus, . 90 

by presiding officer at adoption of annual report of an acad- 
emy, 120 

by principal, in regard to schedule of studies 121 

form of, to ba given by principals of academies, in regard to in- 
struction of teachers' classes : 131 

Ages of academic scholars, form of reporting aggregate and 

average - . . 124 

Agassiz, Louis, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 



INDEX. 253 

■PAGE. 

Aid, gratuitous, form of report in regard to. in academies 118 

in literary colleges, 140 

medical do 148 

Air pump and pneumatic apparatus, recommended for academies,. .. 101 

Albany academy, location, etc., of, 216 

temale academy, location, etc., of, 216 

medical college, location, etc., of, 215 

Albion academy, location, etc., of, 216 

Alfred university, location, etc., of, 214 

academical department, location etc., of, 216 

Alison on Taste, recommended for academy libraries 100 

Alison's History of Europe, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Allen's American Biographical Dictionary, recommended for academy 

libraries, 92 

Alvord, Thomas G., resent 199, 204 

Amendment, of charter of King's college, 162, 1T2 

of constitution of university, 176 

Amendments, charter, power of regents in regard to, 18 

notice of applications for, to be published in state paper, etc.,. .. 61 
American Institute Lectures, recommended for academy libraries,... 99 

Statistical Annual, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Ames academy, location, etc., of, 216 

Amsterdam academy, location, etc., of, 216 

Andersen's (Hans) books, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Andersson's Okovango Eiver (Africa), recommended for academy 

libraries, 97 

Andes collegiate institute, location, etc.. of, 216 

Angelica academy and union school, location, etc., of, 216 

Annual meeting of the board of regents, when and where held, 3 

(See Meetings.) 
Annual report of regents of university, to be made to the legis- 
lature, .. .. 4, 5 

on the condition of the State Normal School (at Albany), to be 
made to the legislature, by the superintendent and regents, . . 38 
Annual reports of colleges, etc., subject to the visitation of the re- 
gents, laws relative to, 30, 31 

forms of, 133-153 

for literary colleges, 1.3.3-H5 

medical do 145-153 

academies, 104-124 

of law libraries of 2d, 4th, and 8th judicial districts, to be made 

to the regents, 49-51 

(See Beports.) 
Anthon's Classical Dictionary, recommended for academy libraries, . 92 
Antiquities, etc., works on. recommended for academy libraries,... 92-94 
Antwerp liberal literary institute, now Black Eiver conference 

seminary, location, etc., of, 216 

Apparatus, etc., of academies, estimated value of, to be given in 

annual reports to the regents, 31 

suitable, to be provided by academies, as a condition of sharing 

in distribution of literature fund, 33 

appropriations for the purchase of books and, for the benefit of 

academies, 34, 35 

conditions on which money is granted by the regents for the pur- 
chase of books and, 86, 87 

articles of, recommended for academies, 101 

form of report required from academies in regard to, 106 

form of certificate in regard to condition of, . . 106 

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254 INDEX. 



Appletnn's Cyclopaedia of Biography, recommended for academy 

libraries, 92 

new American Cyclopaedia, recommended for academy libraries. . 96 

Appley, William S., honorai-y degree of M. D., conferredon 159 

Applications to the regents for the incorporation of college? and 
academies to be made in writing, and to set forth certain 

facts, 9, 10, 59-61 

to be recorded in the office of the secretary of the board, 10 

notice of, for amendments of charters, to be printed in the state, 

and in a local paper, for six weeks, 61 

forms of, for incorporation of academies, 61-75 

for absolute charter, 61-67 

for provisional charter, founded on capital stock, 68-70 

on donations, 73-75 

for declaring provisional charter absolute, 75 

for making an academy incorporated by the legislature suId- 

ject to visitation by the regents, 76, 77 

for making the academical department of a union school sub- 
ject to visitation, 76, 77 

for money to be expended in purchase of books and apparatus, 

may be made, 86 

form of, 89, 90 

Apportionment of literature and U. S. deposit funds, (see Distribu- 
tion, etc.) 
Appropriations for purchase of books, etc., for the benefit of acade- 
mies 34, 35 

when made, 86 

to academies for instruction of common school teachers, 38, 39 

to be paid only on certain conditions, 39 

when made, 133 

Arcade academy, location, etc., of, 216 

Argy'le academy, location, etc., of, 216 

Aristotle's Ethics and Politics (Gillies' trans.), recommended for 

academy libraries, 94 

Arnott's Physics, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Assistant secretary of board of regents, 212, 213 

Atkinson's Travels on the Amoor, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 97 

Attendance, non, of regents of the university during the session of 

the legislature, deemed a resignation, 4 

Attica union school and academy, location, etc., of, . . 216 

Auburn academic high school, location, etc , of, 216 

Auausta academy, location, etc., of, 216 

Aurora academy, location, etc., of, 316 

Authentication, etc., of annual reports of academies, form of, 130 

Ayres, Daniel, honorary degree of M. D., conferred on, 157 

Bacon. Charles G., honorary dearee of M. D., conferred on, 159 

Bacon's Essays, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Bakewell's Introduction to Geology, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, ' . ... 96 

BaldwinsvilJe academy, location, etc., of, 216 

Ballard, Horatio, regent, 199,204 

Bancker, Abraham, regent, 164. 195, 204 

Bancroft's History of the United States, recommended for academy 

libraries. 92 

Bannister, Caleb, honorary degree of M. D., conferred on, 158 

Bard, Samuel, trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Barlow, Francis C, regent, 199, 204 



INDEX. 255 

PAGE. 

BarnarcrB American Journal of Education, recommended for academy 

libraries, 99 

educational works, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Barnes, Enos, honorary degree of M. D., conferred on, 15T 

Millen, honorary degree of M. D., conferred on, 159 

Barrows, Charles, honorary degree of M. D., conferred on 159 

Barry's History of Massachusetts, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 92 

Barth's Travels in North and Central Africa, recommended for acad- 
emy libraries, 97 

Bartlett's United States Explorations in New Mexico and California, 

recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Batavia union school and academy, location, etc., of, 216 

Beach, Abraham, trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Beach. Allen C, regent, 199, 204, 213 

Beattie's Minstrel, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Beck, T. Romeyn, secretary of regents, 212 

Beck's Botany, recommended for academy libraries 96 

Chemistry, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Medical Jurisprudence, recommended for academy libraries, 94 

Beecher's Lectures to Young Men, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Beeckman, John Jacob, regent, 194,204 

Belknap's History of New Hampshire, recommended for academy 

libraries, 92 

Belles Lettres, etc.. works on, recommended for academy libraries, 100 101 

Bellevue hospital medical college, location, etc., of,. . 215 

BelloAvs, Matthias B., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on 158 

Benedict. Erastus C, regent, . 200, 204, 213 

Benson, Egbert, regent 177, 194, 199, 204 

Benton, Nathaniel S., regent, 199,204 

Bentham on Morals and Legislation, recommended for academy 

libraries, 94 

Bigelow's Technology, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Biography, etc., works on, recommended for academy libraries,.. ..92-94 

Binghamton academy and union school, location, etc., of, 216 

Binghamton, law library of sixth judicial district established at, 50 

law library at, under care of justices of sixth judicial district and 

supervisors of Broome county, 50, 51 

reports to supervisors of Broome county only, 51 

Bissell. Daniel H., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Black Eiver conference seminary, formerly Antwerp liberal literary 

institute, location, etc. of, 216 

Blackstone's Commentaries, recommended for academy libraries, ... 94 

Blair, Arba, honorary degree of M. D., conferred on 158 

Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric, recommended for academy libraries, . . . 100 
Blake's Biographical Dictionary, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Bleecker, Harmanus, regent, 200, 204 

Bloodgood, Francis, secretary of regents, — 212 

Boards of education, power of, to establish academical depart- 
ments, 17, 18 

Books, etc., in state library, proper and safe keeping of, 41 

duplicate, etc., in state library, may be sold or exchanged, 41 

catalogue of, as recommended by the regents for academy libra- 
ries 90-101 

of record, to be kept by academies 102, 103 

in academy libraries, form of report in regard to, 106 

received by academies from the state, form of report in regard 
to, 105, 106 



256 INDEX. 



Books and apparatus, appropriations for the purchase of, for the benefit 

of academies, 4, 35 

conditions on -which money may be granted for the purcha-e 

of, Sh, 87 

form of reporting expenditure of moneys raised and granted for, 113 

Boswell's Life of Johnson, recommended for academy libraries, '^2 

Botta's Handbooliof Universal Literature, recommended for academy 

libraries, 100 

History of the American Revolution, recommended for academy 

libraries, 9a 

Italy under Napoleon, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Bouck. William C, regent, 19T, 202, 204 

Bowditch's Navigation, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Bowen, Benjamin E., honorary degree of M. D. confei-red on, 158 

Bowen's Political Economy, recommended for academy libraries, .... 94 
Bozman's History of Maryland, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Brace, Abel, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Bradford. George W., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Bradish. Luther, regent, 198, 204 

vice-chancellor, 212 

Brande's Dissertation on Chemical Pnilosophy, recommended for 

academy libraries, 96 

Brevoort, J. Carson, regent., 202, 204, 213 

Brewster, Sardius, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, .... 159 

Bridgewater Treatises, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

British Prose Writers, recommended for academy libraries, K'O 

Broadhead. Thomas, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Brodhead's History of New York, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Brookfi.eld Academy, location, etc., of, 216 

Brooklyn, law library of second judicial district established at, . ... 49 
law library at, under care of trustees of law libraryof city of Brook- 
lyn, and of justices of supreme court of second district,... 49 
trustees of, to make annual reports to the regents of the uni- 
versity, 49 

collegiate and polytechnic institute, location, etc.. of, 216 

Brooks, Pelatiah B., honorary degree of M. D., conferred on, 158 

Broome. John, regent, 198,204 

Broome countj% supervisors of, charged, jointly with justices ol 

fourth judicial district, with care of law library of said district. 51 
Brougham's VLord) Speeches, recommended for academy libraries,.. 94 

Brow-n's Philosophy, recommended for academy libraries, 94 

Bryan, Richard T., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on 157 

Brvant. William Cullen, honorary degree of L. H. D. conferred on, . 156 

' regent 202, 203, 204 

declined to serve as, 203 

Bryant's Letters of a Traveler in Spain, recommended for academy 

libraries 97 

Poems, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Buck's Tlieological Dictionary, recommended for academy libraries, 91 

Buel, David, regent, 200,204 

Jesse, regent, 202,204 

Samuel, regent 173, 196, 204 

Buffalo, law library of eighth judicial district, established at, 51 

law library at. under care of trustees of Grosvenor library 51 

subject also to rules established by justices of eighth judicial 

district,. — 51 

trustees of, to make annual reports to the regents of the uni- 
versity, 51 



INDEX. 257 

PAGE. 

Buffalo, law library at, trustees of state library authorized to place 

duplicates in, 51 

central school, location, etc., of, 21(d 

female academy, location, etc., of, 21U 

Building!*, form of report required in regard to, for academies, 1U5 

for literary colleges, 140, 141 

medical do 149, 15J 

Bulwers Rise and Fall of Athens, recommended for academy libra- 
ries 9-2 

Burbeck, Phineas H., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful, recommended for academy libra- 
ries 100 

Burnet's History of the Reformation, recommended for academy li- 
braries, 91 

Burritt's Geography of the Heavens, recommended for academy libra- 
ries 96 

Burrows, Lorenzo, regent 201, 204, 213 

Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, recommended for academy libra- 
ries 100 

Butler, Benjamin Franklin, honorary degree of LL. D. conferred 

on, — 155 

regent, 202, 204 

Butler's Analogy, recommended for academy libraries, 91 

By-laws and ordinances, regents authorized to make, 7 

trustees of medical colleges incorporated by the regents, author- 
ized to make, 14 

trustees of colleges authorized to make, 23, 25 

(See Statutes.) 
Caesar's Commentaries, study of, a requisite for classical scholar- 
ship in academies, 84 

Calhoun's Works, n-commended for academy libraries, 94 

Calkins' Manual of Object Lessons, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 99 

Cambridge Course of Philosophy, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 96 

Mathematics, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Cambridge Washington academy, location, etc., of, 217 

Campbell, John N., regent, 200, 204 

Robert, regent 198,201,204,213 

William, regent 200,204 

Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 100 

Canajoharie academy, location, etc., of, ., 217 

Caiiaadaigua academy, location, etc., of, 217 

Canton academy and union school, location, etc., of, — 217 

Carpenter, Philip P., honorary degree of Ph. D. conferred on, 156 

Carlisle's Diary in Turkish Waters, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 98 

Carr, Edson, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Nathan, (see Kerr) , — 177 

Cary collegiate seminary, location, etc., of, 217 

Cash account, general, form of. in annual reports of academies, . . 109. 110 
Catalogue of books, etc., added to the state library each year, to be 

reported to the legislature, . ... 41, 42 

of books recommended for academy libraries, 90-101 

Catalogues of apparatus, may be obtained in Albany, New York and 

Boston, 101 

Catalogues, etc., of colleges, copies of should be sent to the regents, 153 
(/atskiU union school and academy, location, etc., of, 217 

22* 



258 INDEX. 



Cayuga lake academy, location, etc.. of, 211 

Certificate, of academic ?chular?hip, to Idc granted to scholars who pass 

the preliminary academic examination, 83, 84 

form ot, by president or secretary of academy, to tlie official 

cliaracter of the treasurer, 85, 86 

by committee on examination of library and apparatus, 106 

committee on examination of principal's schedule, 119 

trustees of academies, in I'egard to teacliers' classes, 131 

Chalmers' Evidences and Authority of Christian Revelation, recom- 
mended for academy libraries,. . — 91 

Chamberlain institute, location, etc., of 217 

Champlain academy, location, etc., of, 217 

Chancellor of the board of regents, office of constituted,.. — 3, 166, 177 

duties of. 3 

in relation to state museum of natural history, 44 

ex-officio presiding officer of university convocation, 160 

executive committee of university convocation to be appointed 

by the regents and announced by, 160 

committee of necrology to be appointed by, 161 

at the present time, 1870, 213 

Chancellor and secretary, of the board of regents, authentication of 

copies of records, etc., by, authorized by law, 17 

charters of academies to be attested by 68, 72 

instructions in regard to preliminary academic examinations to 

be issued by, 82 

certificates of academic scholarship to be signed by, 83 

apportionment of literature fund to be certified by, 85 

Chancellors of the board of regents, from 1784, list of, 211 

" Chanct'llor's library," re-organization of, as court of appeals' 

libraries, at Rochester and Syracuse, 46, 47 

Chapin. R. Spencer, honorary degree of M D. conferred on 160 

Charters of incorporation, granted by tlie regents, and amendments 
of charters, with applications for same, to be recorded in the 

office of the secretary of the board, 10, 16 

fees for recording, abolished, 17 

recorded in office of secretary of state, to be also recorded in 

office of secretary of regents, 17 

subject to alteration, amendment or repeal by the regents, ... 13, 16 
notice of application for amendment of, to be printed'in the state, 

and in a local paper, for six weeks, . 61 

of medical colleges, may be vacated and annulled by the regents 

in certain cases, 13 

provisional, of medical colleges, conditions on which granted 

by the resents and made perpetual, 12 

of academies, forms of. 67-75 

absolute, 67, 68 

provisional, 71, 72, ' 75 

Chateaubriand's Greece and Egypt, recommended for academy libra 

ries, 98 

Chatham, Burke and Erskine, recommended for academy libraries, . . 100 

Cheever, George B., regent, 202, 204 

Chemical apparatus, recommended for academy libraries, 101 

Chester academy and union school, location, etc., of, 217 

Chili seminary, location, etc., of, 217 

Christian brothers academy of Albany, location, etc., of, 217 

Church, Sanford E., regent, • . . . 198, 204 

Churchill, Alonzo, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Cicero, study of, a requisite for classical scholarship in academies, . . 84 



INDEX. 259 

PAGE. 

Cincinnatus academy, locatioB, etc., of, 217 

Clarence clairsical nnion school, location, etc., of, 217 

Clark, Merritt H , honorary decree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Myron H., regent, 198, 205 

Clarke, Noah Turner, honorary degree of Ph. D. conferred on, 156 

Clarksou, Matthew, regent 165, 177, 195, 201, 203, 205 

Classical scholars?, defined, 84 

Claverack academy and Hudson river institute, location, etc., of, — 217 

Clay's Works, recommended for academy libraries 94 

Clerks, of Senate and Assembly, duties of in regard to legislative 

papers on file, 52-54 

Clinton, De Witt, regent, 197, 198, 202, 205 

secretary of regents, 212 

George, regent, 194,197,205 

cHancellor, 196,211 

George W., regent, 200, 203, 205, 213 

James, regent, 164, 195, 205 

grammar school, location, etc., of, 217 

liberal institute, location, etc., of. 217 

Close (formal) of reports, directions in regard to, for literary col- 
leges, 144, 145 

for medical colleges, 152, 153 

Cluskey's Political Text-Book, recommended for academy libraries,. 94 

Coan, Claudius C, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Cochran, David Henry, honorary desree of Ph. D. conferred on 156 

James, regent, ..T ■. 201, 205 

John, regent, 173, 196, 205 

trustee of Columbia College, 183 

Coe. Jonas, regent 202, 203, 205 

declined to serve as, 203 

College of city of New York, location, etc., of, 214 

of dentistry. New York, (see New YorTc college of dentistry.) 

of physicians and surgeons of the city of New York, location, 

etc., of, 215 

authorized to confer degrees, etc., 5 

of St. Francis Xavier, location, etc., of, 214 

Colleges, how incorporated by the regents, . 9,55, 56 

application to the regent? for incorporation of, to be made in 

writing, and to sot forth certain facts 9 

corporate names of, to be as designated by their founders, 9 

corporate rights and privileges of 9 

trustees of, declared to be corporations, 21 

seniority of trustees of, how determined, 21 

meetings of trustees of, when and on what notice held, 21 

- powers and diities of trustees of, 21-23 

number and quorum of trustees of, 21 

diplomas granted by trustees of, effect of, 23 

trustees of, authorized to hold property by gift, grant or devise, 

and to dispose thereof, 22 

incorporation of, ordinance of the regents respecting the, . . . 55, 56 

form of annual reports of, 133, 153 

literary, 133-153 

medical, 145-153 

Colleges and academies, no religious qualification to be required of 

any officer or member of incorpoi'ated, 29 

no professor or tutor to be a trustee of. 29 

no president or principal, being a trustee, to vote in regard to his. 
own salary, etc., ; 29 



260 INDEX. 

PAGE. 

Colleges and academies, powers and duties of trustees of, 29 

income of trust funds for the benefit of, may be allowed to accu- 
mulate, 7 

incorporated by the regents, vested with general poweis of cor- 
porations under the Revised Statutes, 11 

charters of, granted by the regents, with applications for same, to 
be recorded in the office of the secretary of the board of 

regents, - 10 

subject to alteration, amendment or repeal, by the regents, 

in certain cases, 18 

recorded in office of s^ecretary of state, to be also recofded in 

office of secretary of regents 17 

may be incorporated under general act, 20 

subject to visitation of the regents, laws relative to annual re- 
ports of, 30, 31 

required to make such returns as the regents may require, in re- 
gard to property, etc., 30 

forms of annaal reports of, may be printed by the state printei',. . 30 

Colleges, medical, how incorporated by the regents, : 11 

charters of, may be vacated and annulled by the regents in cer- 
tain cases, 13 

incorporated by the regents, amount of property thftj> may be held 

by 12,13 

property of, not to be applied to other than legitimate uses, 13 

subject to ireneral provisions of Revised Statutes, to visitation 

by the regents, .etc., 13 

trustees of, to be not less than ten nor more than twenty- 
four, 13, 14 

authorized to confer degree of doctor of medicine on cer- 
tain conditions, 14 

required to instruct a limited number of indigent scholars 

tree of charge, 14, 15 

(See Medical Colleges^ and their individual names.) 

Collins, Robert, honorary degree of M D. conferred on, 15T 

Colton's Atlas, recommended for academy libraries, 98 

Columbia college, other incorporated colleges to enjoy the same 

rights and privileges as, 9. 182 

name of King's college changed to, 172 

appropriation to, by act of Nov. 26, 1784, 175 

original charter of, ratified and confirmed, with certain excep- 
tions, 182,183 

trustees of, designated, 183 

powers of, defined, 184, 185 

«■ location, etc., of, 214 

Combe's Physiology applied to Health and Education, recommended 

for academy libraries. . . 100 

Commencement exercises in literary colleges, form of reporting,... 136 
Commerce, etc., works on, recommended for academy libraries,. 91, 95 
Committee, executive, of State Normal School, how constituted, etc., 37 

joint librarj', duty of, relative to legislative papers, 54 

executive, of university convocation, how constituted, etc.,. ... 160 

of necrology, how constituted, etc., 161 

Committees, standing, of academies, form of reporting: list of, 119 

of trustees of academies, on examination of principars schedule, 

form of certificate of, 119 

standing, of regents of the university, to meet on morning of 
day of annual meeting, 154 



INDEX. 261 



Common school teachers, academies receiving $700 or more, from the 
literature fund, required to establish and maintain a department 

for the instruction of, 33, 34 

provision made by the state for the instruction of, under direc- 
tion of the regents, 37-39 

instruction of, by academies, course of, etc., 125-132 

Composition as a scholastic exercise, observations on, by Gideon 

Hawley, LL. D., 242-249 

etc., form of reporting frequency of academical exercises in, — 124 
Comptroller, schedule of distribution of literature fund to be deliv- 
ered to 34, 85 

certificate in regard to instruction of teachers' classes to be fur- 
nished to 38, 39 

appropriations to academies, for purchase of books and apparatus, 

to be certified to, 87 

warrants to be drawn by, in tavor of each institution, for amounts 

from literature fund, 35, 85 

for instruction of teachers' classes, 38, 39 

purchase of books and apparatus, 87 

Comstock, Oliver C, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Constitutions of the States, recommended for academy libraries, .... 94 
Contributions, for library and apparatus, to be in money, when like 

amounts from the regents are applied for, 87 

Convocation, (see University Convocation.) 

Cook, Purcell. honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Cooper, Fayette, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Thomas, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Cooper's (J. F.) Eesidence in France, recommended for academy li- 
braries, 98 

History of the Navy, recommended for academy libraries, 93 

Copies of, and extracts from, records m custody of regents, may be 

used in evidence, vhen duly certified, 17 

certified, of legislative papers, authorized to be made and used 

as evidence, 53, 54 

Corliss, Hiram, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Cornell University, location, etc., of, 214 

Corning. Erastus. regent, 202,205,213 

vice-chancellor , 212, 213 

free academy, location, etc., of, 217 

Corporations, tru«tees of colleges declared to be, 21 

stock, for literary, scientific, charitable or religious purposes, 

how formed, 15 

for literary, etc , purposes, conditions of incorporation of, by 

the regents, 15, 16 

Cortland academy, location, etc., of, 217 

Course of study and discipline, trustees of colleges and academies 

authorized to prescribe, 22, 24 

form of reporting, for literary colleges 137 

Court of appeals, copies of reports of, to be deposited in the State 

library, 43 

judges of, entitled to take books from the State library, 43 

rough minutes of, cited 46 

duties of judges of, in establishing libraries, 46-48 

libraries of, at Rochester and Syracuse, how established, 46, 47 

librarians of, to be appointed by the regents of the university,. . . 47 
provision for salaries of librarians of, and for other expenses, 47, 48 
rules to be framed for libraries of, by the regents, 48, 49 



262 INDEX. 



Court of appeals, libraries for the four elected judges of, how con- 
stituted and increased 47, 48 

clerk of, to perform certain duties in regard to law libraries,. 47, 48 
library of, at Syracuse, considered as law library of fifth judicial 

district, 50 

library of ,at Rochester, considered as law library of seventh judi- 
cial district, 51 

Cousin's History of Philosophy, leconimended for" academy libraries, 94 
State of Education in Holland, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Cowper's Poetical Works, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Coxsackie academy, location, etc., of, 217 

Crabbe's Synonyms, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Crawe, Ithamar B., honorary degree of M. D. confei-red on, 158 

Crittenden, Alonzo, honorary degeee of Ph. D. ccnferred on, 156 

Crombie's Etymology and Syntax of the English Language, recom- 
mended for academy libraries, 100 

Crossby, Ebenezer, trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Crosswell, Thomas O. H., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, .. 157 

Cultivator (The), recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Curtis, George Wihiam, regent 201, 205, 213 

Curzon's Armenia, recommended for academy libraries, 98 

Cushman, John P., regent, 201, 205 

Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Eevolutious ol the Globe, recommended for academy libraries,.. 96 

Theory of the Earth, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Cyclopaedias, etc., recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Dana's Geology, recommended for academy libi-aries, 9(5 

Mineralogy, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Dans^ville seminary, location, etc., of, 217 

D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation, recommended for academy 

libraries, 91 

Davidson, Richard, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Davies' Logic of Mathematics, recommended for academy libraries, 96 
Mathematical Dictionary, recommended for academy libraries. 06 

Mathematical Works, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

D'Avignon, Francis J., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on 159 

Davis' Lectures on Scliool-keepins-, recommended fur academy libra- 
ries 100 

Davy's (Sir Humphrey), Elements of the Philosophy of Chemistry, 

recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Debates, (Secret), in the Convention of the United States, recom- 
mended for academy libraries, 95 

Massachusetts Convention, recommended for academy libraries,. 94 
New York Convention, recommended for academy libraries, . . 95 

Virginia Convention, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Debts and incumbrances, of academies, ordinance in regard to, 58 

form of report required in regard to, for academies, 108 

for literary colleges, 142 

medical do 150, 151 

Declamation and composition, required. 84, 85 

Degree of Doctor of Medicine, persons receiving same from the regents., 

authorized to practice physic and surgery, 5 

requisites for diploma from the regents conferring,' 5, 6 

trustees of medical colleges incorporated by the regents, author- 
ized to confer the same on certain conditions, 14 

honorary, may be conferred by the regents upon a limited number 
of persons recommended by the State Medical Society, 6 



INDEX. 263 

PAGE. 

Degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, may be conferred by the N. Y. 

Colleire of Dentistry, with consent of regents, . ■ 5 

Degrees, New York College of Piiysicians and Surgeons, authorized 

to confer, etc., 5 

regents of the university authorized to confer certain 5 

trustees of colleges authorized to grant, . . 23 

conferred by literary colleges, form of reporting, 136 

honorary, conferred by the regents, list of, 155-160 

Doctor of Laws, 155 

Doctor of Literature 155 

Doctor of Philosophy, 156 

Doctor of Medicine, 156-160 

on nomination of State Medical Society, 156-159 

on nomination of Homoeopathic Medical Society, ... 159, 160 
DelaBeche's Geological Manual, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Delaplain (Delaplaihe), Joseph, regent, 173, 196, 205 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Delaware academylocation, etc., of, 217 

literary institute, location, etc., of, 217 

Dentistry, New York college of (see New YorTc College of Bentistry). 

Depew, Chauncey M., regent, 199, 205 

Deposit academy, location, etc., of, 217 

De Euyter institute, locatitm, etc., of, 217 

De Stael on the French Revolution, recommended lor academy libraries, 95 

on Germany, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, recommended for academy 

libraries, 95 

De Witt, John, regent, 202, 205 

Simeon, regent, 201, 205 

chancellor 211 

vice-chancellor, 212 

William C. , honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Dickinson, Daniel S., regent, 198, 205 

vice-chancellor, 212 

Dictionaries, etc., to be placed in academy libraries, 90, 96 

Diploma, conferring degree of M.D., from the regents, requisites for. 5, 16 
Diplomas, regents of the university authorized to confer certain de- 
grees by, under their common seal, 5 

trustees of colleges authorized to grant, . 23 

Diplomacy of the United States, recommended for academy libraries, . 95 

Discipline, form of report in regard to, in literary colleges, 139 

do in medical colleges, 148 

D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, recommended for academy libra- 
ries ... 100 

Distribution of income of literature, and U. S. deposit funds, laws 

relative to, ,32, 36 

ordinances relative to, 82-90 

(See Literature fund.) 
District schools, Lancasterian and select schools convertible into, 28, 29 

Diversions of Purley, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Dividends to stockholders in institutions of learning, not allowed 

while there is any outstanding indebtedness, 16 

Dix, John A., regent 201, 205 

Dix's Speeches, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Doctor of medicine, etc. ; degree of, etc., (see Degree). 

Documents, legislative, copies of all extra, to be furnished to the 

state library, 45 

Doll. George J. L., regent, 173,196,205 



264 INDEX. 



Dongan, John C, regent, 164, 195, 205 

Doolittle, Harvey W., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Draft, form of, for money apportioned from literature fund, 85, 8G 

for purchase of books and apparatus, ' 90 

instruction of leaders' classes, 132 

Drake's Biography of the Indians, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 92 

Essays on the Spectator, etc., recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Dryden's Virgil, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Duane, James, regent, 194,205 

trustee of Columbia College, 183 

Du Chaillu's Equatorial Africa, recommended for academy libraries, 98 
Duer, William Alexander, honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, .. 155 

regent, 201,205 

Dundee academy, location, etc., of, 21T 

Dunlap, Thomas, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Dunlop's History of Eoman Literature, recommended for academy 

libraries, , 100 

Durbin's Observations in Europe, recommended for academy libra- 
ries 98 

Dutchess county, academy of, location, etc., of, 216 

Dwight's Travels in Germany, recommended for academy libraries, . 98 

Eager, George, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on,. 157 

East Bloomfield academy, location, etc., of, 217 

Genesee Conference Seminary, location, etc.. of, 217 

Eastman's History of New York, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Eclectic medical college, location, etc., of, 215 

Education, works on, recommended for academy libraries, 99, 100 

physical, in academies, form of reporting facts concerning, 118 

Eights, Jonathan, honorary degree ofM. D. conferred on, 157 

Electrical apparatus, recommended for academy libraries, 

Elementary studies, observations on extent of, in academies, by 

Gideon Hawley, LL.D., 227,228 

Elizabethtown union school and academy, location, etc., of 217 

Ellison, Thomas, regent, '. .... 2t3, 205 

Ellis' Madagascar, recommended for academy libraries, 98 

Polynesian Researches, recommended for academy libraries, . . 98 
Ellsworth on Penmanship and Letter Writing, recommended for 

academy libraries, 100 

Elmer dorf. Rev. Lucas, regent 200, 205 

Elmira female college, location, etc., of, 214 

free academy, location, etc.. of, 217 

Ely. John, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Emerson's Mechanics, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Employment of teachers, ordinance in regard to, 103 

Enc}^clop£edia Americana, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Britannica, recommended lor academy libraries, 96 

Encyclopsedias, etc., to be placed in academy libraries 90, 96 

Endowment of colleges and universities, under general act, limited 

to one million dollars, 20 

English language, observations on pronunciation of, by Gideon Haw- 
ley, LL.D., 229,230 

Erasmus Hall academy, location, etc., of, 217 

Evans academy, location, etc., of, 217 

Everett's America, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Europe, recommended for academy libraries, _. . 95 

Bvidence, certified copies of, and extracts from all records, etc., in 

custody of regents, may be used in, 17 



INDEX. 265 

PAGE. 

Ewbank's Brazil, recommencled for academy libraries, 98 

Examination, in writing, to be held in academies, 82, 33 

and classification o"f academy scholars, with reference to distri- 

bntion of literature fund, 82-84 

provisional, in academies, directions for, 83, 84 

members of teachers' classes in academies to be selected on, 126 

Examinations, form of reporting facts in regard to, in academies, . 118 

in literary colleges, 138, 139 

medical do 149 

Executive committee of State normal school, how constituted, etc.,. 3T 

of university convocation, how constituted, 161 

Exercises, etc., form of reporting frequency of certain, in academies, 124 

in literary colleges 1 37. 138 

Exhibitions and prize contests in literary colleges, form of reporting, 138 
Expenditure, annual, form of report in regard to, for academies. 111, 112 

for literary colleges, 143 

medical do 151 

Expenditures of State museum of natural history, to be audited by 

chancellor or standing committee of regents of the university, 44 
Faculties of colleges, etc., members of, disqualified from serving as 

regents of the university, 2 

of medical colleges, degree of doctor of medicine may be con- 
ferred by trustees, on the recommendation of, 14 

form of reporting names of, etc., in academies 113 

in literary colleges, . . , 133, 134 

medical do 146 

Fairfield academy, location, etc.. ot, 217 

Falley seminary, location, etc., of, 217 

Faraday's Physical Forces, recommended for academy libraries,. ... 97 

Farmer's Hall academy, location, etc., of, ". 217 

Farr, Levi, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

William, honorary decree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Federalist (The), recommended for academy libraries 95 

Fees for recording charters, etc., in the office of the secretary of the 

regents, abolished, . . 17 

in medical colleges, form of report in regard to, . 151 

Fenton, Reuben E., regent, 198, 205 

Ferguson's Civil Society, recommended for acadenw libraries, 95 

Roman Republic, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Fish, Hamilton, regent 197,198,205 

Fisher's United States Gazetteer, recommended for academy libraries, 98 
Fisk's Eschenberg's Antiquities, recommended for academy libra- 
ries 92 

Fitch, Asa, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Forestville fr^e academy, location, etc., of, 217 

Form of annual reports of academies, 104-] 24 

of colleges 1.33-153 

literary colleges, 133-145 

medical do 145-153 

of application for appointment to instruct a teachers' class, 125 

for incorporation of an academy, 61-77 

pledge to be given by members of teachers' classes, 126 

report to be made on the instruction of a teachers' class, 130-132 

draft for money appropr ated for insi ruction of a teachers' class. . 132 

Fort Covington academy and union school, location, etc., of, 217 

Edward col egiate institute, location, etc., of, r 218 

Plain semin:iry and female collegiate institute, location, etc., of, . . . 218 



266 INDEX. 



Founders of colleges, to make known to the regents the plan on 
which, and the funds with which the same are to be founded 
and endowed, etc., 9 

of academies, may apply to the regents for an act of incorpora- 
tion, 10 

of medical colleges may apply, by certificate, to the regents for 
incorporation," 11, 12 

of Lancasterian schools, may apply to the regents for incorpora- 
tion, 19 

Franklin academy and union school, Malone. location, etc., of, ^18 

do Prattsburgh, location, etc., of, 218 

Franklin's Life and Essays, recommended for academy libraries, ... 92 
French's Gazetteer of New York, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 98 

Friends' academy, location, etc., of, 218 

Friendship academy, location, etc., of, 218 

Fuller, Thomas, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Fund, literature, etc.. ( see Literature Fund). 

Ganoe (Gano), John, regent, 173, 196, 205 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Gansevoort, Peter, Jr., regent, 202, 205 

Gardiner, Addison, regent 198,205 

Garrison, Harmanus, regent, , 173, 196, 206 

Nelson S.. honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Gazetteers, etc., to be placed in academy libraries, 90 

Gedney, Eleazei", honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Gelston, David, regent, 194, 206 

Genesee college, location, etc., of, 214 

Valley seminary, location, etc., of, 218 

Wesleyan semmary, location, etc., of, 218 

and Wyoming seminary, location, etc., of, 218 

Geneseo academy, location, etc., of, '. 218 

Geneva classical and union school, location, etc., of, 218 

medical college, location, etc., of, 215 

Geography, etc., works on, recommended for academy libraries,... 97-99 

Geol-ge the iSecond, King's college chartered during reign of,. 162 

Gibbon's Roman Empire, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Gibson's Surveying, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Gilbertsville academy and collegiate institute, location, etc., of, 218 

Glen's Falls academy, location, etc., of, 218 

Globes, maps, etc., appropriations for purchase of, for benefit of 

academies, 35 

recommended for academy libraries, 101 

Gloversville union seminary and union school, location, etc., of, 218 

Godman's Natural History, lecommended for academy libraries, .... 97 
Goldsmith's History of England, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 92 

of Rome, recommended tor academy libraries, 92 

Works, recommended for academy libraries, . . 101 

Good's Book of Nature, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Goodrich's Select British Eloquence, recommended for academy 

libraries, 95 

Goodsell, Thomas, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Goodwin, William H., regent, 202, 200, 213 

Gordon's History of Ireland, recommended for academy libraries,... 92 

Gouverneur Wesleyan seminary, location, etc., of, 218 

Graduates, college, form of reporting number of, in literary colleges, 135 

in medical colleges, ...... 147 



INDEX. 267 



Graham, John Lorimer, regent, 201, 206 

Grahame's History of the United States, recommended for academy 

libraries, 92 

Grammar school of Madison university, location, etc., of _ 218 

Grants made to the regents for certain purposes, not to be diverted 

to other objects 7 

Gratuitous aid (see AicT). 

Gray's Botany, recummended for academy libraries, 97 

Greene. Alpheus S.. honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Greenville academy, location, etc , of, 218 

Greenwich union school and academy, formerly Union Village aca- 
demy, location, etc., of, 218 

Greig, John, regent, ■ 202, 206 

vice-chancellor, 212 

Griffith institute, location, etc., of, 218 

Griswold, John A., regent 203, 206, 213 

Gros (Gross), John Daniel, regent 173,196,206 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Grnsvenor library, trustees of, charged with care of law library of 

eighth judicial district, 51 

Groton academy, location, etc,, of, 218 

Guizot's History of Civilization, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, ■ 92 

Gummere's Surveying, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Gurowski's Eussia as it is, recommended for academy libraries. 98 

Hale, Robert S., regent 203, 206, 213 

Halfmoon academy, location, etc., 218 

HalPs Education of Children, recommended for academy libraries, .. 100 
Lectures on School-keeping, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 100 

Hallam's History of the Middle Ages, recommended for academy li- 
braries, 92 

Halleck's Poems, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Hamilton, Alexander, regent 173, 196, 206 

trustee of Columbia college , 183 

college, location, etc., of,. 214 

Emerson, John, honorary degree of Ph. D. conferred on, 156 

female seminary, location, etc., of, 218 

Hamilton's Logic, recommended for academy libraries, 94 

Metaphysics, recommended for academy libraries, 94 

Hammond, "Jabez D,, regent, 200,206 

Hard, Patrick W., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Haring, John, regent, 164, 195, 206 

Harper, Robert, (see Harpur.) 

Harper's Classical Series, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Family Library, recommended for academy libraries, 96 

Gazetteer, recommended for academy libraries, 98 

Harris's Hermes, recommended for academy libraries, l''l 

Harpur Robert, regent, 164, 195, 206 

secretary of regents, 196, 212 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Harrison, Richard, secretary of regents, 212 

Hartford academy, location, etc., of, 218 

Hartwick seminary, location, etc., of, 218 

Hassler's Mathematical Tables, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Hathorn, John, regent, 194,206 

Haverling union school and academy, location, etc., of, 218 

Hawley, Gideon, regent, 201, 206, 213 



268 INDEX. 



Hawley, Gideon, secretary of regents, 212 

observations by, on certain branches of academic instruction, 224-249 
Hazlitt's Eloquence of the British Senate, recommended for academy 

libraries, 95 

Headley, Joel T., regent, 199, 206 

Heber's Travels in India, recommended for academy libraries 98 

Heeren's Historical Works, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Henry, John D., honoraiy degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Joseph, honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, 155 

Hickok's Rational Psycliology, recommended for academy libraries,. 94 

Hicks, Truman B., honorary'degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Hildreth's History of the United States, recommended for academy 

libraries, 92 

Hillard's Six Months in Italy, recommended for academy libraries, .. 98 

Hinckley, John W., honorary degree of M. D. conierred on, 159 

History, ecclesiastical, works on theology and, recommended for 

academy libraries, 91 

biography and antiquities, w^orks on, recommended for academy 
libraries, ..92-94 

natural, etc., works on, recommended for academy libraries, . .96, 97 

Hobart college, location, etc., of, 214 

Hoffman, Anthony, regent, 164, 195, 206 

John T., regent 198, 206, 213 

Hogeboom, James, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Holley academy and union school, location, etc., of, . . 219 

Holton's New Granada, recommended for academy libraries, 98 

Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, authorized 

to recommend persons for honorary degree of M. D., : 

Honorary degrees (see Degrees.) 

Hoosick Falls union school and academy, location, etc., of, 219 

Hopkins, Mark, honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, 155 

Hopkins' Moral Science, recommended for academy libraries, 94 

Hue's Travels in China, recommended for academy libraries, 98 

Tartary and Thibet, recommended for academy libraries, 98 

Hudson aciulemy, location, etc., of, 219 

Htill, Laurens, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Humboldt's Cosmos, recommended for academy libraries 98 

Hume's History of England, with Smollett and Bissett's Continua- 
tion, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Humfrey, Cornelius, regent 164,195,206 

Hungerford collegiate institute, location, etc., of, 219 

Hunt, Joseph G. T., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Washington, regent, 197,206 

Huntington, Abel, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

union school and academy, location, etc. of, 219 

Hydrostatic apparatus, recommended for academy libraries, 101 

Income, anntial, authorized to be held by the regents of the university,. 1 

from trust-funds for benefit of colleges, etc., may be allowed tc 

accumulate within certain limits, 7 

{^ae Revenue.) 
Tncorporation of academies, laws relative to, 10, 11, 15-17 

ordinances of the regents of the university respecting, 57-77 

charters granted, either absolute or provi.sional, 57 

requirements for absolute and provisional charters 57, 53 

applications for, to set forth evidence of to title and value of 
grotmds, description and value of bttildings, catalogues of li- 
brary and apparatus, incumbrances on prop^n-ty, etc., 59-(il 

forms of application for, 61-75 



INDEX. 269 

PAGE. 

Incorporation of academies, forms of application for, with absolute 

charter, 61-67 

with provisional charter. 68-70 

founded on capital stock, . , ; 68-70 

donations or endowments 72-75 

for declaring provisional charter absolute, 75 

making academy incorporated by the legislature subject to 

visitation, 75, 70 

making academic department of union school, subject to visi- 
tation, 76,77 

of colleges, laws relative to, 9-17 

ordinance of the regents respecting the, 55, 56 

buildings and funds to the amount of one hundred thousand dol- 
lars required as a condition of, 55 

provisional charter to be granted for five years in case the funds 

are not duly invested, 56 

of colleges, etc., laws relative to, 9-20 

educational institutions, general act for, 20 

stock companies for literary, etc. purposes, by the regents, 

conditions of. 15, 16 

Ingham university, location, etc., of, 214 

Institution and organization of the University of the State of New 

York, 162-223 

legislative acts in regard to, 162-193 

act of May 1, 1784 ... 162-172 

act of November 26, 1784 172-175 

art of April 13, 1787, 176-193 

Instruction of common school teachers, provision made by the state 

for the, nnder direction of the regents, 37-39 

.directions concerning, 125-132 

gratuitous academic, form of reporting facts concerning, 118 

form of reporting mode of, in literary colleges, 139 

in medical colleges, 147,148 

Instructions relative to preliminary academic examination, to be given, 82 

relative to teachers' classes in academies, 125-132 

Irving, Washington, regent, 200,206 

Irving's Life of Columbus, recommended for academy libraries,. 92 

Life of Washington, recommended for academy libraries, 92 

Works, recommended for academy libraries, . .' 101 

Ithaca academy, location, etc. , of, 219 

Jacobs, Ferris, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 160 

Jacques, John D., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, ... 156 

Jamestown union school and collegiate institute, location, etc., of,.. 219 

Jane Grey school, location, etc., of, . 219 

Jay, John, regent, 173, 177, 196, 197, 200, 206 

chancellor, 211 

vice-chancellor, . 212 

Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, recommended for academy libraries, . . 98 

Jenkins, Elisha. regent, 203, 206 

vice-chancellor, 212 

Jewett, Lester, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 15 

Johnson, Alexander S.. regent, 200, 206, 213 

Johnson's Atlas of the World, recommended for academy libraries, . . 98 

Works, recommended for academy libraries, 101 

Johnston's Chemistry of Common Life, recommended for academy 

libraries, 97 

■Johnstown academy and union school, location, etc., of, 219 

Jones, David R. Floyd, regent, 190, 206 

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270 IXDEX. 

PAGE. 

Jones, David S., secretary of regents, 212 

Thomas, regent, 173, 190, g()6 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Jonesville academy, location, etc., of, 219 

Jordan academy and union school, location, etc., of, 219 

Josephus' Works, recommended for academy libraries, 91 

Judicial district libraries, establishment of, 49-51 

trustees of state library authorized to place duplicates in libra- 
ries of first, fourth and eighth judicial districts, 49-51 

Junius (WoodfalFs), recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Jurisprudence, politics and commerce, works on, recommended for 

academy libraries, 94, 95 

Kames' Elements of Criticism, recommended for academy libraries,. 101 

Keeseville academy, location, etc. of, 219 

Keith on the Globes, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Kellogg Lucius, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Kelly, Robert, regent, 203, 20K 

Kent, James, regent 201, 206 

Kent's Commentaries, recommended for academy libraries, . . 95 

Kernan. Francis, regent, 202, 203, 206, 213 

Kerr (Carr), Nathan, regent, 173, 177, 196, 200, 206 

Kidder's Brazil, recommended for academy libraries, 98 

Kinderhook academy, location, etc., of, . . 219 

King, Andrew, regent, 177,202,207 

Consider, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on , 157 

Erastus, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

James, regent, 201, 207 

chancellor, 211 

John A., regent,.. 198,207 

King's college,' act for granting certain privileges to, etc., passed 

May 1,^1784 162-172 

name changed to Columbia college, 173 

acts of May 1 and November 26, 1784, amending charter of, re- 
pealed 192,193 

Kingston academv and union school, lucation, etc., of, 219 

Kirkpatrick, William, honorary degree of iM. D. conferred on 156 

Kissam, Benjamin, trustee of Columbia college 183 ■ 

Kitto's Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature, recommended for academy 

libraries, ^91 

Kneeland, Jonathan, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Kunze, Johann, Ch., regent 173, 196, 207 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Lancasterian schools, how incorporated, — 19 

charters of and applications therefor to be recorded in offices of 

county clerks of counties in which they are established, 19 

Dropeity and funds of, vested in trustees, 19 

subject'to control and visitation of the regents 20 

required to make snch reports as the regents may require, 20 

and select, trustees of declai"ed to be corporations, 27 

powers of trustees of, 27, 28 

may be made district schools?, 28, 29 

subject to visitation of the regents when incorporated, 29 

Lanning, Richard, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on 159 

Lansing, Gerritt Y., regent, 202, 207 

chancellor, 211 

John Jr., reg.'ut , 194,201,207 

Lansingburgh academy, location, etc., of, 219 



INDEX. 271 

PAGE. 

Laplace's Mecanique Celeste (translated by Bowditcli), recommended 

for academy libraries, 97 

Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, recommended for academy libraries,. 96 

Law library of first judicial district, establishment of, 49 

of second judicial district, 49 

third judicial district, (state library), 49 

(See State Librarj.) 

fourth judicial district, 50 

fifth judicial district, (court of appeals', at Syracuse), 50 

sixth judicial district, 50, 51 

seventh judicial district (court of appeals', at Eochester), 51 

eighth judicial district, 51 

Law libraries, additional, founded by the state, 46-51 

of judges of the late supreme court, etc., to be re-organized for 

the judges of the court of appeals, 4T, 48 

of the several judicial districts, established 49-51 

trustees of the state library authorized to place duplicates in 

those of first, fourth and eighth districts, .. .... 49-51 

Lawrence, John, regent 173, 196, 207 

trustee of ColuFrbia college, 183 

Nathaniel, secretary of regents, 212 

Thomas, regent, 165, 195, 2i 7 

Lawrenceville academy, location, etc., of, 219 

Laws relative to the university of the state, and the organization and 

powers of tlie board of regents, 1-54 

obsolete, relative to the board of regents, 162-193 

Layard's Nineveh, recommended for academy libraries, ... 98 

Leavenworth, Elias W., regent, 199. 200, 207. 213 

institute, now Wolcott union school, location, etc., of, 223 

Lectures, free scientific, to be established in connection with State 

Museum of Natural History 44 

Lee, Joshua, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Lee's Memoirs of the War in the Southern States, recommended for 

academy libraries, . 92 

Legislative papers, (see ManuscHpts.) 

Legislature, annual report to be made to, by the regents of the uni- 
versity, 4, 5 

in regard to institutions reporting to them, 35, 36 

in regard to State Normal schools, 38 

in regard to state library, 41, 42 

condition of legislative papers on file, etc., to be reported to, ... 54 

apportionment of literature fund to be reported to, 35, 36 

members of, entitled to take books from the state library, 42 

vacancies in the board of regents to be reported to, 4 

Le Roy academic institute, location, etc., of, 219 

Lewis, Morgan, regent 173, 196, 197, 207 

chancellor, ~.. 211 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

L' Hommedieu, Ezra, regent, 165, 177, 195, 200, 207 

Liberty normal institute, location, etc , of, 219 

Librarians, of state library, to be appointed by the trustees, 40 

subject to removal by trustees, 40 

duties of, 41 

directions to be given to, by trustees, 41 

liable to amercement for violation or neglect of duty, 41 

of court of appeal's libraries, to be appointed by the regents of 

the university,.. 47 

provisions in regard to salaries of, 47, 43 



273 INDEX. 

PAGE. 

Libraries to "he provided by academies as a condition of incorporation 

and of sharing in distribution of literature fund, 33, 57 

catalogue of books recommended for, 90-101 

form of report required in regard to, .. . 105,106 

apparatus, etc., of academies, estimated value of, to be given in 

annual reports to the regents, 31 

additional law, founded by the state, 46-51 

of the judges of the late supreme court, etc., to be re-organized 

for the judges ol the court of appeals, 47, 48 

judicial district, establishment of, 49-51 

trustees of state library aiithorized to place duplicates in libra- 
ries of first, fourth and eighth districts, 49-51 

(See Law Libraries.) 
Librarv, Grosvenor. trustees of, charged with care of law library of 

eighth jtidicial district, 51 

state, laws relative to care of, 40-43 

(See State Library.) 
Lieber's Essays on Property and Labor, recommended for academy 

' libraries, 95 

Manual of Political Ethics, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Linn (Lynn), William, regent ... 177, 202, 207 

Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer, recommended for academy li- 
braries, . 98 

Lispenard. Leonard, regent 173, 196, 207 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Literature and U. S. deposit funds, laws relative to distribution of 

income of, 32-36 

ordinances, relative to, 82-90 

apportioned among academies in proportion to number of pupils 

pursuing requisite studies. ... 32 

requisite studies enumerated, — 32 

pre-requisites as to building, library and apparatus, 32, 33 

certain incorporated schools, not strictly academies, may be ad- 
mitted to the distribution of, 33 

academies receiving seven hundred or more dollars from, re- 
quired to establish department for instruction of common 

scho 1 teachers, 33, 34 

schedule of distribution of, to be delivered to the comptroller, ... 34 

do for purchase of books and apparatus, 87 

comptroller to draw warrant on treastirer in favor of each acad- 

■ emy participating in the distribution of, , 34 

regents authorized to grant relief in cases of erroneous distribu- 
tion of, 35 

all sums apportioned from, to be applied to the payment of teach- 
ers" salaries, 34 

distribution of, when to be made, 85 

money apportioned from, how drawn, 85, 86 

form of draft for, 85, 86 

distributive share from, not to be paid to the principal of an 
academy while the salaries of subordinate teachers are in 

arrears, 103 

form of reporting expenditure of, in annual reports of academies, 112 
special appropriation frum income of, for purchase of books and 

apparatus, . 34, 35 

no academy to receive more than $250, for books, etc., in any one 

year. . . 35 

conditions on which money is granted for books, etc., 86, 87 

regents to report the annual distribution of, to the legislature, 35, 36 



INDEX. 273 



PAGE. 

Little Falls, academy at, location, etc., of, 21f> 

Livingston, Edward'P., regent, 198, 201, 207 

Gilbert, regent , 173,196,207 

Henry Brockhol?t, regent, 164,195,207 

treasurer of regents 196 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

James, recent, 164,177,195,201,207 

John H., regent, 173,196,207 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Robert R., honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, 155 

Walter, regent, 164,195, 207 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Livingstone's Researches in South Africa, recommended for academy 

libraries, 98 

Lloyd, John Jr., regent, 173, 196, 207 

Locke on the Human Understanding, recommended for academy li- 
braries 94 

Lockport union school and academy, location, etc., of, — 219 

Lockwood, Ebenezer, regent, 173,196,207 

Longfellow's Poems, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Long Island college hospital of the city of Brooklyn, location, etc., 

of, r. 215 

Lossia'j:'s Field Book of the Revolution, recommended for academy 

libraries, 93 

Lowville academy, location, etc., of, — 219 

Luckey, Samuel, regent, 202, 207 

Lyell's Geology, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Travels in the United States, recommended for academy libra- 
ries 98 

Lyons union school and academy, location, etc.," of, 219 

Macedon academy, location, etc., of, . 219 

Mackenzie's Year in Spain, recommended for academy libraries, ... 98 
Mackintosh's History of the Revolution of 1688, recommended for 

academy libraries, 93 

Madison Papers, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

university, location, etc., of, . ... 214 

Malte Brun's Geography, recommended for academy libraries... .. 98 
Malthu-; on Political tilconomy, recommended for academy libraries.. 95 

on Population, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Manhattan college, location, etc., of, 214 

Manuscripts, laws relative to the care of certain public 52-54 

legislative papers on file more than five years to be placed in 

charge of the regents of the university, 52 

not applicable to papers in office of secretary of state, 52 

trustees of capitol to provide suitable rooms for, . . 53 

regents to have sole charge of, 52, 53 

not to be removed without resolution of the senate and assem- 
bly, 53 

required to be duly classified and arranged, 53 

certified copies of, may be furnished, 53, 54 

may be used as evidence, — 54 

duty of joint library committee of legislature in regard to, 54 

to be duly reported to the legislature, when removed from files 

and not duly returned, 54 

Maps, recommended for academy libraries 101 

globes, etc., appropriations for the purchase of, for the benefit 
of academies, 35 



274 INDEX. 



PAGE, 

Marathon academy, location, etc.. of. 219 

Marcy, William Learned, honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, .. 155 

regent, , 197, 202, 20T 

Marion collegiate institute, location, etc., of, 219 

Marshall, Henry, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

seminary of Easton, location, etc., of, 219 

Marshall's Life of Washington, recommended for academy libraries, 93 
Martin, Benjamia Nicholas, honorary degree of L.H.D. conferred 

on 1.55 

institute, location, etc., of, 219 

Martineau's (Miss) Illustrations of Political Economy, recommended 

for academy libraries, 95 

Mason, John, regent, 1T3, 196, 207 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

William, honorary degree of M. D conferred on, 158 

Master of Arts, degrees above, authorized to be conferred by regents 

of university, ". .. 5 

Maunder's Treasury of Knowledge, recommended for academy libra- 
ries 96 

Maxvi^ell, Samuel, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Maxvvfell's Czar, his Court and People, recommended for academy 

libraries, 98 

Mayville academy and union school, location, etc., of, 219 

McClellan, John, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

McCrea, John, regent 165, 195, 207 

McDonald, John, regent, ' 177, 203, 208 

McGrawville union school, formerly New York Central Academy, 

location, etc., of, 219 

Mcllvaine's Evidences of Christianity, recommended for academy li- 
braries, 91 

(See MacTcintosh, etc.) 

McKnight, Charles, regent, 173.196,208 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

McKown, James, regent, 183, 209. 208 

McLean, John, honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, 1.55 

John, regent 203, 208 

McVicar, Malcolm, honorary degree of Ph. D. conferred on, 156 

McVickar's Political Economy, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Mechanical powers, recommended for academy libraries, \.. 101 

Mechauicville academy, location, etc., of, 219 

Medical colleges, how incorporated by the regents, 11, 12 

charters of, maybe vacated and annulled by the regents in certain 

cases 13 

trustees of, to be not less than ton nor more than twenty-four, 13, 14 

authorized to make all needful by-laws and rules, 14 

required to instruct a limited number of indigent scholars 

free of charge, 14, 15 

Medical institutions, academical departments of, not entitled to 

share in distribution of literature firnd, 33 

(See Colleges^ and their individual names.) 
Medical society of the State of New York, and homoeopathic medi 
cal society, authorized to recommend persons for honorary de- 
gree of M. D., 6 

Medina acad3ray and union school, location, etc., of, 219 

Meetings of the regents of the university, annual and others, when 

and where held, how appointed, etc., 34 



TXDEX. 275 



Meetings of trustees of academies, when, where, and on what notice 

held 25 

of colleges, do 21 

Melmoth's Pliny, recommended for academy libraries, 101 

Membership of university convocation, how constituted, 160 

Merriam. John, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on 158 

Messenger, of state library, to be appointed by the trustees, 40 

Metcalf, Ellas P., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Mexico academy, location, etc., of, 219 

Middlebury academy, location, etc., of, 219 

Middleton's Life of Cicero, recommended for academy libraries, 93 

Miller, Greene, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Nathaniel, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Mill's History of Chivalry, i ecomraended for academy libraries, 93 

do of the Crusades, recommended for academy libraries, . . .. 93 

Political Economy, recommended for academy libraries, . ... 95 

Milton's Poetical Works, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Miner. William W., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Mimites, court of appeals', rough, cited, 46 

regents', cited 46 

Mitchell's General View of the World, recommended for academy 

libraries,. 98 

Mode of instruction in colleges, (see Instruction.) 

Molina's History of Chili, recommended for academy libraries, 93 

Monroe academy, location, etc., of, 219 

Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, recommended for academy libraries, . 95 

Montgomery academy, location, etc., of, 219 

Monticello academy, location, etc., of, 219 

Mooers, Benjamin J., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Moore, Benjamin, regent 177,202, 208 

Henry B., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Moore's American Eloquence, recommended for academy libraries,. 95 

Moravia institute and union school, location, etc., of, 220 

Morgan Christopher, regent, 199. 208 

Edwin D., regent, 198,208 

Morris, Lewis, regent, 164,177,195,201,208 

Morton, Andrew, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Motley, John Lothrop, honorary degree of L.H.D. conferred on 155 

Motley's History of the Dutch Republic, recommended for academy 

libraries, ." 93 

do of United Netherlands, recommended for academy libraries, 93 

Mott, Valentine, honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, 155 

Moulton. Peter, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on . 159 

Mount Morris union school and academy, location, etc., of 220 

Pleasant academy, location, etc.. of, 220 

Munro collegiate institute, location, etc., of, 220 

Murphy's Tacitus, recommended for academy libraries, 93 

Murray, David, honorary degree of Ph. D. conferred on, 156 

Museum, agricultural, hall for, placed under joint care of regents of 
the university and executive committee of the State Agricul- 
tural Society, 43 

Nairne, Charles Murray, honorary degree of L. H. D. conferred on, . 1.55 

J^aples academy, location, etc., of, 220 

Nassau academy, location, etc., of, . . 220 

National Almanac, 1863, 1864, recommended for academy libraries,.. 98 
Natural History, state cabinet of, laws relative to, 40-43 

state museum of, organized 44 

(See State Museum.) 



276 INDEX. 



Nelson. Homer A., regent 199, 208, 213 

on Infidelity, recommendecl for academy libraries, 91 

Newark union school and academy, location, etc., of, . . . 220 

New Berlin academy, location, etc., of, 220 

Newman's Rhetoric, recommended for academy libraries, 101 

New Paltz academy, locatioia, etc., of, 220 

New York central" academy, now McGrawville union school, loca- 
tion, etc., of 219 

college of dentistry, authorized to confer degree of Doctor of 

Dental Surgery, etc., with consent of regents 5 6 

location, etc., oif, ,. 215 

conference seminary and collegiate institute, location, etc., of,.. 220 

homoeopathic medicRi college,"location, etc., of, 215 

hygieo therapeutic college, location, etc., of, 215 

law library, establishment of, , ... 49 

to be under careof justices of first judicial district as trustees, 49 
trustees of state library authorized to place duplicates in,. . . 49 

medical college and hospital for women, location, etc., of. 215 

state teachers' associaticm, certain officers of, ex-officio members 

of the university convocation, 160 

Nicholson's Natural Philosophy, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 97 

Niebuhr's History of Rome, recommended for academj'- libraries,. .. 93 

Noble. Oliver E., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 160 

Normal school, state fat Albany), supervision and management of,.. 37 

executive committee of, how constituted, 37 

North, Edward, honorary degree of L.H.D. conferred on 155 

Granville ladies' seminary, location, etc., of, 220 

Norton, Heman, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

William S., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Notice, of meetings of trustees of colleges and academies, how given, 

etc 21, 25 

of application for amendment of charter, to be printed in the 

state, and a local paper, for six weeks, 61 

Norwich academy, location, etc., of, 220 

Number of students in academies, form of reporting, 116, 117 

in literary colleges, 135 

medical do 147 

Nunda academy, location, etc., of, 220 

Nuttall's Ornithology, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Nyack union sciiool and academy, location, etc., of 220 

Observations on certain branches of academic instruction, by Gideon 

Hawley, LL.D., 224-249 

preliminary remarks, 224-227 

on extent of elementary studies, 227,228 

pronunciation of the English language, . . 229, 230 

subjects of study, 230 

physical education, 231-284 

study mcmoriter, or by rote, 235-242 

composition as a scholastic exercise, 242-249 

O'Callaghan's History of New Netherland, recommended for acad- 
emy libraries, 93 

Officers of board of regents, designated 3 

how appointed, 3 

of coUegies and academies, disqualified to act as regents of the 

universit}^ 2 

of trustees of academies, form of reporting. 118 

Offices, vaci'it. in colleges and academies, authorized to be filled by 

the regents in certain cases, 6 



INDEX. 277 



Ugdensburgh educational institute and union school, location, etc., 

of, 220 

Oliver, Andrew F., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Olmsted's (P. L.) Travels in England, recommended for academ}' 

libraries, 98 

Philosophy, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Olean academy and union school, location, etc., of, 220 

Onderdonk, John, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Onondaga academy and union school, location, etc., of, 220 

Ontario female seminar j% location, etc., of, 220 

Oneida seminary, location, etc., of, 220 

conference seminary, location, etc., of, 220 

Ordinance of the regents of the univei'sity, respecting the incorpora- 
tion of colleges, 55, 56 

Ordinances, by-laws and. regents authorized to make, 7 

of the regents of the university. .. 55-160 

etc., trustees of colleges authorized to make, 23 

trustees of academies authorized to make, 25 

Organization of the University of the State of New York, 194-223 

board of regents, 194-213 

institutions composing the university, 214-223 

O'Sullivan, John L., regent 200, 208 

Oswego high school, location, etc., of, 220 

Ottendorfer. Oswald, regent, 201, 208, 213 

Oswego academy and union school, location, etc., of, 220 

Owen, Ira C, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 160 

Oxford academy, location, etc., of, 220 

Packer collegiate institute, location, etc., of, ; 220 

Page's La Plata, recommended for academy libraries, 98 

Paige, John Keyes, regent, . . 201, 208 

Palatine Bridge union school and academy, location, etc., of, 220 

Paley's Evidences of Christianity, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 91 

Moral and Political Philosophy, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 94 

Natural Theology, recommended for academy libraries, 91 

Palmyra classical union school, location, etc., of, 220 

Papers and records, laws relative to care of certain public manu- 
scripts, 52-54 

(See Manusc?ipts^ etc.) 

Parker. Amasa J., regent 201, 208 

Parks, Isaac, regent, 203, 208 

Parma institute', location, etc., of, 28G 

Parry's Voyages for a Northwest Passage, recommended for acad- 
emy libraries, .' ■ 98 

Parton's Life of Jackson, recommended for academy libraries, . . . 93 
Patterson, George W.. regent. ^ 198, 208 

William, honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, 155 

Peekskill academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Peet, Harvey Prindle, honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, . ... 155 

Pell, Philip, Jr., regent, 164,195,208 

Penfleld seminarj% location, etc., of, 221 

Penn Yan academy and union school, location, etc., of, 221 

Perkins, George R., regent, 202. 208, 213 

Perkin's Mathematical Works, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, - 97 

Perry academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Perry's Japan Expedition, recommended for academy libraries, 98 

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278 INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Phelps. James L., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

union and classical school, location, etc., of, ... 221 

Phillips, Ciirran and Grattan, recommended for academy libraries,.. 101 

Phillips, George W., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, -157 

Philosophy, intellectual and moral, works on, recommended for 

academy libraries, . . 94 

natural, etc., works on, recommended for academy libraries, 96, 97 

Phipps union seminary, location, etc., of, 221 

Phoenix, Lewis, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Physical education, observations on, by Gideon Hawley, LL.D.,. 231-234 
Physicians and surgeons, trustees of college of, of the city of New 
York, invested with certain rights formerly reserved to the 

regents of the university, 5 

Physiology and laws of healtl, appropriations to academies for in- 
struction in, 38, 39 

Pike seminary, location, etc., of, 221 

Pilgrim's Progress, recommended for academy libraries, 91 

Pitcher, Nathaniel, regent 198, 208 

Pitkin's Statistical View of the United States, recommended for 

academy libraries, 99 

Piatt, Eliphalet, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Zephaniah, regent, ' 202, 208 

Playfair's History of Natural Philosopby, recommended for academy. 

libraries, 97 

Plattsburgh academy and union school, location, etc., of, 221 

Plutarch's Lives, recommended for academy libraries, 93 

Poetry, books of, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Politics, etc., works on, recommended for academy libraries, 94, 95 

Pomeroj-^'s Introduction to Municipal Law, recommended for acad- 
emy li braries, 95 

Pompey academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Pope's Homer, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Works, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Port Byron free school and academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Jervis union school and academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Porter, Peter B., regent, 200, 208 

Samuel, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Post, Lewis, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on 160 

Potter's Grecian Antiquities, recommended for academy libraries,.. 93 
School and Schoolmaster, recommended for academy libraries,. 100 

Poughkeepsie female academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Powers and duties of trustees of colleges, 21-23 

of academies, 23-27 

Lancasterian and select schools, 27-29 

colleges and academies, 29 

Pratt, Daniel J., assistant secretary of regents, 212, 213 

Preparatory scholars, defined, 82 

Prescott's Historical Works, recommended for academy libraries, . . 93 
Presidents of colleges, etc., disqualified to act as regents of the uni- 
versity, *. 2 

trustees of colleges authorized to appoint, and to remove on due 

cause shown, 22, 23 

etc., no religion? qualification to be required of, 29 

Presiding officer of board of regents, designated, 3 

Preston,TMedina, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Price of tuition, (see Tuition.) 

Principals of academies disqualified to act as regents of the uni- 
versity, 2 



INDEX. 270 



PAGE. 

Priiiciijals of academies, no.religious qualification to be required of,. 29 

diitie:? of, in regard to teachers' classes, 12(i-131 

Prideaux's Connections, recommended for academy libraries, 91 

Prior, Asabel, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 15-7 

Prize contests, exhibitions and, in literary colleges, form of report- 
ing 138 

Professors, etc., of colleges, trustees authorized to appoint, and to 

remove on due cause shown, 22, 23 

Professorships, form of reporting number and description of, in 

literary colleges, 134 

in medical colleges, 145 

Property, account of, to be included in annual reports of acad- 
emies, 31 

statement of, required in applications for incorporation of acad- 
emies, 59-61 

form of report required from academies concerning, 104-113 

amount of, that may be held by a medical college incorporated bv 

the regents 12, 13 

in an institution incorporated under the general law, 20 

trustees of colleges authorized to hold, by gift, grant or devise, 

and to dispose of same, ". 22 

of academies authorized to hold, by gift, grant or devise, and 

to dispose of same, '. 24 

of Lancasterian and select schools, to be held by the trustees 

subject to their disposal, 2S 

Provisional examination in academies, directions for, ^3, 84 

Provost, Samuel, regent, 173, 196, 208 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Pruyn, John V. L., regent, 201, 208, 213 

chancellor, T. 211, 213 

Puffendorf s Law of Nature and Nations, recommended for academy 

libraries, 95 

Pulaski academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Purple, William D., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Putz's Ancient Mediseval and Modern Geographies, recommended for 

academy libraries, 95 

Quorum, of board of regents, designated, 3 

Ramsay's History of the United States, recommended for academy 

libraries, 93 

Randall, Henry S., regent, 199, 208 

Randall's Life of Jefferson, recommended for academy libraries,.. .. 93 

Rankin, Robert G., regent, 200, 208, 213 

Raumer's America, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Raymond, Henry J., regent, _. . . 19S. 208 

Reading, etc., form of reporting frequency of exercises in, in acad- 
emies 124 

Record, of preliminary academic examination, to be kept by each 

academy, 82, 83 

academic books of, form of I'eport in regard to, 106 

Records, laws relative to care of certain public manuscript papers 

and, 52-54 

to be kept by academies, 102. 1 03 

(See Manuse?ipts.) 

Re>i Creek union seminary, location, etc., of 221 

Reference, books of, to be placed in academy libraries, 90, 9] 

Regents of the university : 

""laws relative to, and to the university, 1-54 

organization and powers of, 1-8 

€X-Qffljio members, designated, 2 



280 INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Regents of the universiw — {Continued)'. 

number of, , 2 

how appointed 2 

appointment of, how rendered void, 2 

vacancies occasioned hy non-attendance, 4 

vacancies to be reported to the legislature, 4 

vacancies in the board of, how filled, 4 

disqualified to act as presidents, principals or other of&cers of 

colleges or academies, 2 

quorum of, 3 

oflicers of, how designated and appointed, 3 

annual meeting of, when and where held, ._^ 3 

power of, to adjourn meetings, 3 

meetings of. how appointed, and when and where held, 3, 4 

allowed access to all books and papers of the corporation, 4 

duty of secretary of, to record ayes and noes, if requested, 4 

duty of treasurer of, . .. 4 

authorized and required to visit and inspect all colleges and 

academies, 4, 5 

certain rights originally reserved to, transferred to trustees of 

College of Physicians and Surgeons of city of New York, 5 

authorized to fill certain offlcesln colleges and academies when 

vacant, 6 

prohibited from applying specific grants to other uses than those 

directed, 7 

authorized to determine extent of accumulation of trust funds 

in certain cases, 7 

authorized to make by-laws and ordinances, 7 

authorized to send for persons and papers, 7, 8 

authorized and required to incorporate literary colleges on cer- 
tain conditions 9 

power of, to incoi'porate colleges, etc., under act of 1853, 11 

authorized to prescribe requisites and conditions for the incorpo- 
ration by them of colleges, et'c, 10 

authorized and required to incorporate academies on due appli- 
cation, 10 

certificate made by persons desirous to found a medical college, 

to be filed in the olHce of the secretary of, 11 

authorized and required to incorporate medical colleges, on cer- 
tain specified conditions, 12 

authorized to vacate and annul charters of medical colleges in 

certain cases 13 

required to incorporate stock institutions for literary, etc., pui-- 

poses, on certain conditions, 35, IG 

authorized to alter, amend or repeal charters of institutions in- 
corporated by them, and of all others, subject to their visit- 
ation, on petition of the trustees thereof, 16 

charters granted by, with applications for the same, to be re- 
corded in the oflice of the secretary of, 16 

charters, etc., recorded in office of secretary of state, to be also 

recorded in office of secretary of, 17 

certified copies of records, etc., in custody of, may be used in 

evidence, 17 

academical departments of union free schools subject to visita- 
tion of, ... 18 

■ uthorized to incorporate Lancasterian schools, 19 

Lancasterian schools, subject to control and visitation of, 20 

authorized to require reports from Lancasterian schools,. . . 2J 



rN"DEx. 281 

PAGE. 

Regents of the university — ( Continued) : 

apportionment of $40,000 from income of literature and U. S. 
deposit funds, for the benefit of academies, to be annually 
made by _ 32 

to be satisfied in regard to requisite value of academy buildings, 
libraries, etc.. as conditional to distribntion of literature fund, 33 

may admit certain incorporated schools, not strictly academies, 
to the distribntion 33 

duty of, to require academies receiving $700 or more from litera- 
ture fund, to establish a department for instruction of common 
school teachers, 33, 34 

required to deliver authenticated schedule of distribution of 
literature fund, to the comptroller, 34 

annual appi-opriation to, for the purchase of books and appa- 
ratus, for the benefit of academies, , 34, 35 

an. horized to give relief to academies in regard to erroneous dis- 
tribution of literature fund, etc., 35 

required to report annual distribution of literature fund to the 
legislature, .. 35, 36 

supervision of state normal school intrusted to, jointly with the 
superintendent of public instruction 37 

with superintendent of public instruction, required to make an 
annual report to the legislature, on the condition of the State 
normal school (at Albany). . 38 

authorized to prescribe course of study for teachers' classes in 
academies, 38 

authorized to appoint a teacher or teachers to give instruction 
in physiology, etc., in academies, '. 38. 39 

to be satisfied as to thorough instruction of teachers' classes in 
academies. 39 

constituted trustees of the state library 40 

authorized, as trustees, to appoint and instruct librarians, pre- 
scribe rules, sell or exchange duplicates, loan books to state 
oflicers, etc., 40-43 

directed to provide for safe-keeping of cabinets of natural his- 
tory, and to employ a person to take charge of the same, 43 

hall for state cabinet, etc., placed under the joint care of, and 
the executive committee of the state agricultural society, ... 43 

chancellor of. authorized to audit expenditures for state museum 
of natuTal history, 44 

standing committee of, on state museum of natural history, au- 
thorized to audit expenditures, 44 

slate museum of natural history, organized under the care of, 
in accordance with plan recommended by, 44 

minutes of. cited, 46 

librarians of 'court of appeals' libraries to be appointed by, ... 47 

authorized to frame rules for court of appeals' libraries 48. 49 

trustees of certain judicial district libraries required to report 
to, 49-51 

intrusted with sole care of legislative papers on file more than 
five years, 5-2 

required to cause all such papers to be duly classified and ar- 
ranged, 53 

authorized to furnish certified copies of such papers, 53 

required to report to the legislature annually in regard to papers 
removed from files and not returned, T 54 

ordinances of, 55-160 

respecting the incorporation of colleges, etc., 55-77 

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282 INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Regents of the umversAtj— (Continued) : 

duty of, to ascertain whether requisite books of record are kept 

by academies, 102 

some member to attend examination of teachers' classes in 

academies, 129 

appropriations for instruction of teachers' classes to be made by, 

at the annual meeting 132 

two general business sessions to be held by, annually, 154 

standing committees of, to meet on morning of day of annual 

meeting, 154 

conditions prescribed by, in regard to honorary degrees, 155 

executive committee of the university convocation to be ap- 
pointed by ". 160 

as appointed by act of May 1, 1784, 164, 165, 194, 195 

of November 26, 1784, 173, 196 

April 13, 1787 176, 177 

under act of April 13, 1787, . - •. .... 197-203 

alphabetical list of, from 1784-1870 204-211 

ex officio, under act of May 1, 1784, 164-194 

under act of April 13, 1787, 197-199 

officers of, 1784-1870, 211, 212 

under act of May 1, 1784, 166 

of April 13, 1787 179 

officers and members of the board, in 1870, 213 

authorized by act of May 1, 1784, to make ordinances, etc., for 
government of colleges composing the university, and to elect 

president, etc., of King's college, 166, 167 

to hold property, 168 

found colleges, . 169 

confer degrees 171 

time and place of annual meeting, under act of Nov. 26, 1784, . . . 174 

of April 13, 1787 177, 178 

clergy authorized by act of Nov 26, 1784, to elect certain, 174, 175 

vacancies how filled, under act of April 13, 1787, . . 177 

authorized by act of April 13, 1787, to hold property, 178 

to visit and inspect colleges, 179 

to fill vacancies in certain cases in the headship of colleges and 

academies, 179, 180 

to confer degrees, 180 

to apply any of their funds for promotion of literature, etc., i80, 181 

time and place of meeting designated, 181 

authorized to incorporate colleges, 181, 182 

academies, . 185-187 

sketch of growth of business in the office of, etc., 224-227 

Registers of attendance, etc., to be kept by academies, 102, 103 

Eeid's Philosophy, recommended for academy libraries, . 94 

Religious qualification, hone to be required of any officer or member 

of any incorporated institution, ... 29 

Religious tests, none to be required of teachers, under act of April 

13,1787 192 

Remarks, general, provision for, in form of reports for literary col- 
leges, ... 144 

for medical colleges, , " 152 

Removal from office, power of vested in trustees of colleges, etc., on 

due cause shown, 22-25 

Rensselaer polytechnic institute, location, etc., of, 215 

Report, annual, to be made by the regents of the university to, the 

legislature, 4, 5 



i?CDEX. 283 



PAGE. 

Report, annual, of the state normal school (at Albany) to be made to 

the leffislature, 38 

Reports, to be made by incorporated Lancasterian and select schools, 

■when required by the regents, 29 

of committees on preliminary academic examinations to be 

made, 83 

annual, of academies, to contain estimated value of library, ap- 
paratus, etc., 31 

names and compensation of instructors, 31 

financial statements, 31 

date of termination of academic year as declared by the trust- 
ees on their minutes 30, 31 

names and ages of all the pupils, 31 

a statement of the studies pursued by each pupil, — 31 

what in general, . . 78-81 

to be transmitted to the regents on or before the first of 

November, in each year, 31 

to be attested by oath of principal instructor, or of a 

trustee, 31 

blank form of, 104-124 

on instruction of teachers' classes in academies, 130-132 

of colleges, etc., subject to visitation, laws relative to, 30, 31 

to be made from time to time as regents may require, 30 

forms of, to be prescribed by the regents, 30 

may be directed to be printed by state printer, 30 

blank forms of, 133, ]53 

for literary colleges, 133-145 

medical do 145-153 

Requisites for degree of doctor of medicine, when conferred by trust- 
ees of medical colleges incorporated by the regents, 14 

Resignation, non-attendance of regents during the session of the 

legislature to be deemed as, 4 

Resolutions, concurrent, in regard to state library, 45 

by regents, in regard to annual and semi-annual sessions, 154 

in regard to attendance of standing committees, 154 

in regard to annual reports of academies in which instruction 

has been suspended, 154 

in regard to honorary degrees, 155 

by university convocation, in regard to organization, etc., .. 160, 161 

miscellaneous, 154, 155, 160, 161 

Revenue and expenditure account, form of, in annual reports of 

academies, Ill, 112 

of literary colleges, 142, 143 

medical do 151 

Ricardo's Political Economy, recommended for academy libraries,. . 95 

Rice, Victor M., regent, 199,208 

Richardson, William H., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Richburgh academy and union school, location, etc., of, 221 

Riggs, John W., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Lewis, honorary degree of M. D. C(mferred on, 158 

Riley, Luther, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Riverdale institute, location, etc., of, 221 

Robertson's Historical Works, recommended for academy libraries,. 93 

Robinson, Gain, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Rochester collegiate institute, location, etc., of, 221 

court of appeals' library founded at, 46 

considered as law library of seventh judicial district, 51 

female academy, location, etc., of, 221 



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PAGE. 

Rochester free academy, location, etc.. of, 221 

Rockland county female institute, location, etc., of, 221 

Rockwell, William, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Rodgers, John, regent, 173, 177, 196, 199, 208 

vice-chancellor, 212 

Rogersville union seminary, location, etc., of, 221 

Roget's Thesaurus of English "Words, recommended for academy li- 
braries 101 

Romain (Romein), Nicholas, regent, 173, 196, 208 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

■Thomas, regent, 173, 196, 208 

Rome academy and union school, location, etc., of, 221 

Romeyn, Dirck, regent, 177, 201, 208 

Root, Erastus, regent, 198, 2(,9 

Rural seminary, Tocation, etc., of, 221 

Rush on the Human Voice, recommended for academy libraries,. 97, 101 

Rushford academy and union school, location, etc., of, 221 

Russell. Ebenezer, regent, 173, 177, 196, 201, 209 

Joseph, regent, 202. 209 

Russell's History of Ancient and Modern Europe, recommended for 

academy libraries, 98 

Rutgers. Henry, regent, .• 202, 209 

Rutgers female college, location, etc., of, 214 

therford, John, regent, 173, 196, 209 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Ruxton's Life in Mexico, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Salaries, of officers of colleges and academies, appointed by the re- 
gents, authorized to be fixed by them in certain cases, 6, 7 

of college officers, trustees auth( )rized to fix, . 23 

of officers of academies to be fixed by the trustees, 24 

all moneys apportioned from the literature fund to be applied to 

the payment of teacher's, 34 

duty of trustees in regard to payment of, . . 103 

of librarians of court of appeals' libraries, provision for, 47, 48 

Sallust, as a requisite for classical scholarship in academies 84 

Sanderson's Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, recommended for academy libraries, 93 

Saratoga Springs union school and academy, location, etc., of, . .. 221 

Sargent's Arctic Adventure, recommended for academy libraries, ... 99 

Satterlee, Richard L., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 160 

Sauquoit academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Say's Political Economy, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Schedule of distribution of literature fund, to be duly anthenticated 

and filed with the comptroller, 34 

form of certificate of committee on examination of principal's,.. 199 
form of principal's annexed to the annual report of an acad- 
emy, 122-124 

Scheffer, George C. honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Schenectady, law library of fourth judicial district at, 50 

under care of justices of fourth judicial district as trustees,. ., . 50 
trustees of, to make annual reports to the regents of the uni- 
versity, 50 

trustees of state library authorized to place duplicates in, 50 

union school and academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Schiller's Thirty Years War in Germany, recommended for academy 

libraries, 93 

Schmidt's History of Education, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 100 



INDEX. 285 

PAGE. 

Schoharie academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Scholars, classification of academic, etc 82-85 

Schonberg Cotta Family, recommended for academy libraries 101 

School commissioners, to be notified of the organization of teachers' 

classes in academies, and invited to make frequent visits,. 128, 129 

occurrence of such visits to be reported, LSO 

School, state normal (at Albany), supervision and management of, 37 

annual report of, law concerning, ,38 

Schoolcraft's Travels, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Scott, Lewis A., trustee of Columbia college, 183 

John Morin. regent, 195, 209 

Schuyler, Philip, regent, 177, 200, 209 

Seal, a common, authorized to be made and used by the regents of 

the university, . 1 

regents of the university authorized to confer certain degrees by 

diploma, under their common, . 5 

corporate, of an academy, to be used, if there be one, 86 

Sears' Pictorial History of the United States, recommended for acad- 
emy libraries, 93 

Secretary of board of regents, office of, created, 3 

duty of, to record ayes and noes, if requested, 4 

charters granted by said board, with applications for same, to he 

recorded in the office of, .. . 16 

charteis, etc., recorded in office of secretary of state, to be also 

recorded in office of, 17 

at the present time, 213 

assistant, do, 218 

Secretaries of the board of regents, list of, 212 

Sedswick's Means and Ends, or Self-Training, recommended for 

academy libraries 1 00 

Seixas, Gershom. regent, .. 173, 196, 2 i9 

trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Selden, Charles, regent, 203, 209 

Henry R., regent 198, 209 

Select schools, trustees of, declared to be corporations, 27 

powers of trustees of, 27, 28 

may be made district schools, 28, 29 

subject to visitation of the regents, when incorpoiated, 29 

Seneca Falls academy and union school, location, etc., of, 221 

Seniority of trustees of colleges ajid academies, how determined, 21, 25 

Seward, William H., regent, '. 197, 209 

Seymour, Horatio, honorary degree of L. H. D. conferred on, _ . 156 

Sganzin's Civil Engineering, recommended for academy libraries, ... 97 

Shakespeare's Works, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Shelden, Alexander, regent, 202, 209 

Sheldon, Alexander, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Shepard's Mineralogj'', recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Sherburne union school and academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Sherman, Stephen D., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 160 

Sherman's Governmental History of the United States, recommen- 
ded for academy libraries, 93 

Sherwood, Henry H., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 16T 

Shumway, Samuel, honorary degree of M. D., conferred on, 158 

Silliman's Chemistry, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Journal of Science, recommended for academy libraries 96 

Physics, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Simpson on Popular Education, recommended for academy libraries, 100 
Sismondi's Literature of the South of Europe, recommended for 
academy libraries, 101 



286 INDEX. 



Skaneateles union school and academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Smellie's Philosophy of Natural History, recommended for academy 

libraries, 97 

Smith, Caleb, recent, 165, 195, 209 

Goldwin, honorary degree of L. H. D. conferred on, . . . , 156 

John Aagustus, honorary degree of M D. conferred on, 156 

Mason G., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Matson, honorary degree of M. D. conlerred on, 157 

Nathan, regent, 200, 209 

Smith's Wealth of Nations (McCnlloch's edition), recommended for 

academy libraries, 95 

History of New Jersey, recommended for academy libraries, 93 

->f New York, recommended for academy libraries, 93 

Travels in Chili, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Snell, Jacob G., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Sodus academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Southey's History of Brazil, recommended for academy libraries, ... 93 

Soutliwick, Solomon, regent, 200, 209 

Spark's American Biography, recommended for academy libraries,.. 93 

Life of Washington, recommended for academy libraries, 9-*^ 

Spencer, Ambrose, regent, 200, 209 

Spencer, John C, regent, 7. 200, 209 

Spencer on Education, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Spencertown academy, location, etc., of, 221 

Sprague's Lectures to Daughters, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 10^ 

Squiers' Nicaragua, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

S. S. Seward institute, location, etc., of, 221 

Staats, Peter P., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Stamm, Frederick F., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 160 

Starkey seminary, location, etc., of, 221 

State cabinet of natural history, laws relative to, 43, 44 

duplicates in,.. . 43 

(See State Museum^ etc.) 

State library, laws relative to care of, 40^3 

regents of the university appointed trustees of, 40 

librarians and messenger, how appointed, 40 

when to l)e kept open, 40 

duties of librarian — 41 

trustees to give directions to librarian, 41 

salary of librarian may be suspended or deducted for violation or 

neglect of duty, 41 

duplicates, etc., may be sold or exchanged, 41 

annual report to be made to the legislature conceruing, 41, 42 

•may be closed fifteen days in each year for cleaning, etc., 40, 41 

members of the legislature may take books from, 42 

catalogue of books, etc., added each year, to he reported to the 

legislature, 41, 42 

full catalogue of, to be reported to the legislature at the end of 

every five years, 42 

members of the legislature required to return books taken from, 42 
heads of state departments, and trustees of the library, allowed 

to take books from, . . .. 43 

judges of the court of appeals and justices of the sipreme court 

ahowed to take books from, 43 

copies of court of appeals' reports to be deposited in, 43 

trustees of, may make rules for, and may limit its use to certain 
persons, whenever necessary, , . . . 45 



INDEX. 287 



PAGE. 

Strate library — {Continued) : 

copies of all extra documents to be furnished to, by the state 

printer, 45 

regents of the university authorized to take books for, from the 

" chancellor's library," 46 

trustees of, authorized to place duplicates in certain judicial dis- 
trict libraries, 49-51 

considered as law library of third judicial district, . .. 50 

Statement, tabular form of, for reports of literary colleges,. . . 143, 144 

for reports of medical colleges, 15"3 

State museum of natural history, state cabinet of natural history 
re-organized as, in accordance with plan recommended by the 

regents, 44 

free scientific lectures to be established in connection with, . . 44 

salaries of officers in, provided for, ; . . 44 

botanical department in. continued for three years, 44 

State normal school (at Albany), supervision and management of, . .. 37 

executive committee of, how constituted, etc., 87 

State paper, notice of called meetings of the board of regents to be 

published in, 4 

notices of application for amendments of charters, etc., to be 

published in, and in a local paper, 61 

distribution of literature fund to be published in, 85 

State printer, forms of reports to be made to the regents, may be 

printed by 30 

required, by concurrent resolution, to furnish copies of all extra 

documents, for the state library, 45 

State publications, form ol report in regard to those received by 

academies, 105, 106 

Statistics, etc., works on, recommended for academy libraries, 97-99 

Statutes or by-laws, form of report in regard to, for literary colleges. 140 

for medical colleges, 148 

Stearns. John, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Steele. Joel Dorman, honorary degree of Ph. D. conferred on, 156 

John H., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 157 

Stephens' Travels in Central America, recommended for academy 

libraries, 99 

in Egypt and the Holy Land, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Steuben, Fred. Wm. Baron de, regent, 177, 203, 209 

Stevens, Alexander H., honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, 1.55 

Stevenson, James, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on 157 

Stewart's Philosophy, recommended for academy libraries, 94 

Stiles' Atistria in 1848, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

St. John's college, location, etc., of, ^- 214 

St. Lawrence university, location, etc., of, 214 

Stock corporations, for literary, scientific, charitable or religious 

purposes, how formed, , 15 

conditions of incorporation of, by the regents, 15, 16 

academic, special powers of trustees of, 26, 27 

Stockholders, in corporations for literaiy, etc.. purposes, authorized 

to cast one vote for each share, 15 

in any institution of learning, not entitled to dividends, while 

there is any outstanding indebtedness, 16 

Stone's Life of Sir William Johnson, recommended for academy 

libraries, 93 

St. Pierre's Studies of Nature, recommended for academy libraries, 101 
Street's Poems, recommended for academy libraries, 99 



288 INDEX. 

PAGE 

St. Stenlien's college, 1-ocations, etc., of, 214 

Students, form of reporting number of, in academies, llti, 117 

in literary colleges, 135, 186 

medical do, I'lT 

Studies, requisite to entitle academies to participate in distribution 

of literature fund, 3S 

Study memoriter, or by rote, observations on, by Gideon Hawley, 

LL.D 235-342 

Sturdevant, James M., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on 159 

Subjects of study and text-books in academies, form of reporting, 114-116 

observations on, by Gideon Hawley, LL.D., 2.30 

Summary and average of ages of academic scholars, form of, reporting, 124 

statements, form of, in reporting property of academies, 108 

Superintendent of public instruction, supervision of state normal 

school intrusted to, jointly with the regents of the university, 3T 
and legents of the university, required to make an annual report 
to the legislature oti the condition of the state normal school 

(at Albany), 38 

Supervisors of Broome county, charged, jointly with justices of 

fuurth judicial district, with care of law library of said district, 51 
Supreme court, justices of, entitled to take books from the state 

library, 43 

Surveyins instruments, recommended for academy libraries, 101 

Suyda'm, John, regent, 199,209 

Swalm. Samuel J., hor orary degree of M. D. conferred on 159 

Swinton's llambles among Woods recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 101 

Sylvester, Peter, regent, 177,300,209 

Syracuse, court of appeals' library founded at, 46 

considered as law library of fifth judicial district, 50 

high school, location, etc., of, • 221 

Tabular statement (see Statement.) 

Talcott. Samuel A., regent, 201,209 

Talmadge, James, regent, 198,209 

Tappen, Christopher, regent, 164, 195,209 

Taylor, John, regent, 198, 199, 2C 9 

chancellor, 211 

vice-chancellor .. , 212 

Taylor's District School, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Universal History, recommended for academy libraries, 93 

Teachers, academy, all moneys apportioned from the literature fund 

to be applied to payment of salaries of, 34 

election of, etc., to be recorded, — 102 

ordinance in regard to employment of, by the trustees, etc ., 103 

duty of trustees in regard to payment of salaries of, . . 103 

form of reporting list of. 113 

form of reporting facts in regard to employment of, 114 

Teachers, common school, academies receiving $700 or more Irom lit- 
erature fund, to establish and maintain a department for the 

instruction of, 33, 34 

provision made by the state for the instruction of, under the di- 
rection of the regents, 37-39 

instructions, etc., relative to classes of, in academies, 125-133 

form of application for appointment to instruct, . . . • 125 

form of pledge to be given by, -, 126 

course of study to be pursued by, 126-128 

Teachers' Association, N. Y. State, certain officers of, ex officio mem- 
bers of the university convocation, 160 

Telemachus, recommended for academy libraries, 101 

Teller, Harrison, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on,.. 159 



INDEX. 289 



PAGE. 

Temple Grove seminary, location, etc., of. 221 

Ten Broeck free academy, location, etc., of, 222 

Terms or sessions, form of reporting length of, etc., in academies,. . . 118 

in literary colleges 136 

medical do, 147 

Text-book, use of this term, in ordinance of regents, defined, 87, 88 

Text-books, etc., academic, form of reporting those used, 114-116 

Theological institutions, academic departmeuts of, not entitled to 

share in distribution of literature fund, 33 

Theology and Ecclesiastical History, works on, recommended for 

academy libraries, 91 

Thomson's The Land and the Book (Syria), recommended for acad- 
emy libraries, 99 

Seasons, recommended for academy libraries, 99 

Thompson, James, regent, 200,209 

Smith, regent, - . 202, 209 

Thorn, James, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Throop, Enos T., regent, . '. 197, 198, 209 

Ticknor, George, honorary degree of L. H. D. conferred on, 155 

Title to academic property, evidence of, to be submitted to a coun- 
selor in the supreme court, 60, 61 

form of report in regard to 107 

Todd, John E., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on 158 

Todd's Student's Manual, recommended for academy libraries, 100 

Tompkins, Daniel D., regent, 197, 209 

chancellor, ... 211 

Jonathan G., regent, 177,202,210 

Town, Salem, honorary degree of LL.D. conferred on, 1.55 

Townsend, Charles D,, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on,.. — 1.57 

James, regent, 165, 195, 210 

Tracy, John, regent, 198,200,210 

Travels, etc., books of, recommended for academy libraries, 97-99 

Treasurer, of regents, office of, constituted, 3 

duty of, 4 

appointment of first, 196 

Treasurer, state, apportionments to academies to be paid by, on 

warrant of comptroller 34, 35, 38, 85 

form of draft on, for amounts apportioned to academies from 

literature fund, 85, 86 

for purchase of books and apparatus, 90 

instruction of common school teachers, 132 

Treasurers, of academies, form of draft by, for amounts apportioned 

from literature fund, .85, 86 

for purchase of books and apparatus, 90 

instruction of common school teachers, 132 

Treat, Malachi, regent, 173, 196, 210 

trustee of Columbia college, ^... 183 

Trench, on Words, recommended for academy libraries, 101 

Troup, Robert, regent - - 201, 210 

Trowbridge, Joshua, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on 157 

Troy academy, location, etc., of, 222 

female seminary, location, etc., of, 222 

high school, location, etc., of, 222 

Trumansburgh academy, location, etc. , of, 222 

Trumbull's History of Connecticut, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 93 

Trust funds, for the benefit of colleges, etc., income of, may be per- 
mitted to accumulate, within certain limits, 7 

25 



290 INDEX. 



PAGE 

Trustees of academies, disqualified to act as regents of the uni- 
versity, " 2 

etc., corporate propeity to vest in, 10 

powers and duties of, 23-29 

declared to be corporations, 23 

number of, 23 

quorum of, 23, 24 

powers of, 24, 25 

to adjourn from time to time, 24 

to elect a president, 24 

to fill vacancies, 24 

to hold property by gift, grant or devise, and to dispose there- 
of, 24 

to prescribe the course of study and discipline, 24 

to appoint teachers and other officers, 24 

to fix the salaries of all oflBcers, 24 

to remove officers employed under special contract, on due cause 

shown, 24, 25 

to make necessary ordinances and by-laws, 25 

under act of April 13, 1787, 187-192 

to declare the office of non-attending members vacant, 26 

meetings of, when and where to be held, and on what notice, 25 

non-attendance for one year to be deemed a resignation, 26 

number of, when exceeding twelve may be reduced lo twelve, by 

abolishing the office of noa-attending members, 26 

when more than twelve in number, offices vacant more than six 

months to be abolished, 26 

authorized to consent to adoption of academy as academical de- 
partment of a union free school, and to declare their offices 

vacant, 18 

special powers of, in stock corporations, 26, 27 

mode of election of, in stock corporations, 15, 27 

required to declare the termination of the academic year on their 

minutes, 30 

to furnish satisfactory evidence to the regents, that teachers' 

classes have been thoroughly instructed, 30 

to ftirnish to the comptroller certificates that members of 

teachers' classes intend to follow the business of teaching,. . 39 
to reserve and exercise the right of employing all the teachers, 103 
to perform certain duties in regard to payment of teachers' 

salaries, 103 

to report whether the rights of subordinate teachers in regard 

to salaries have been protected, 103 

jointly with principal to select pupils for teachers' classes, etc., 126, 128 

form of reporting officers of, 118 

meetings of, held during the year, 1 19 

standing committees of, or appointed by the board, 119 

form of certificate by, in reg'ard to instruction of teachers' 

classes, 131 

Trustees of colleges, disqualified to serve as regents of the university, 2 

number prescribed, 9 

powers and duties of, 21-23 

declared to be corporations, 21 

meetings of, when and on what notice to be held, 21 

seniority, among, how determiied, 21 

number and quorum of, 21 

powers of, 21, 22 

to elect a chairman, .-. 22 



INDEX. 291 

PAGE. 

Trufstees of colleges, powcis of — {Continued) : 

t(> fill vauiiicieb, :22 

declare seats vacant on account of absence, 22 

hold property, by gilt, grant or devise, 22 

dispose of property received by gift, grant or devise, 22 

prescribe course of study and discipline 22 

appoint a president, professors and other officers, 22 

remove the president and other officers on due proof of 

misbehavior, etc., 22, 23 

grant literary honors, 23 

fix salaries of faculty and other officers, 23 

make ordinances and by-laws, 23 

duties of, under ordinance respecting incorporations, 56 

of colleges and academies, disqualified to act as regents of the 

university, 2 

powers and duties of, 29 

no religious qualification to be required of, 29 

professors and tutors disqualified to be, 29 

when also presidents or principals, not allowed to vote in regard 

to their own salaries, etc., 29 

Trustees, and faculty, form of reporting facts in regard to, in literary 

colleges, 133,134 

in medical colleges, 146 

of medical colleges, incorporated iDy the regents, to be not less 

than ten nor more than twenty- four, 13, 14 

authorized to make all needful by-laws and rules. 14 

authorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine, on certain 

conditions, 14 

required to instruct a limited number of indigent scholars, free 

of charge, 14, 16 

of college of physicians and surgeons of city of New York, in- 
Arested with certain rights previously reserved to the regents of 

the university, 5 

of stock corporations for literary, etc., purposes, how elected, ... 15 

Trustees, of Lancasterian and select schools, how incorporated, 19 

property to vest in, 19 

declared corporations, 27 

powers of, 27, 28 

to elect officers, 27 

fill vacancies, 27* 

appoint teachers, etc., 27 

remove teachers, etc., 28 

fix salaries, 28 

appoint times and places of meetings, 28 

hold and dispose of property, 28 

make necessary ordinances and by-laws, 28 

declare office of non-attending members vacant, 28 

of common school districts, authorized to agree with trustees of 
any incorporated Lancasterian or select school, to make the 

same a district school, 28 

of law libraries of certain judicial districts, required to make 

annual reports to the regents of the university, 49-51 

Trustees of state library, certified copies of records, etc., in custody 

ol, may be used in evidence, 17 

regents of the university constituted, 40 

quorum uf, for appointing or removing librarian, 40 

authorized to appoint librarians and messenger, 40 

to appoint the hours of the day, during which the library is to 

be kept open, 40 



292 iNDKX. 

PAGE. 

Trustees of state library, authorized — {Continued) : 

to give directions to the librarian in regard to care of booKS, and 
to suspend or deduct from his salary, for violation or neglect 

of duty, 41 

close the library fifteen days, in each year, for cleaning,etc., . . 40, 41 

sell or exchange duplicates, etc., 41 

take books from the library, 43 

place duplicates in certain judicial district libraries, 49-51 

required to make annual reports to the legislature, as to the ex- 
penditure of moneys, etc., 41, 42 

report a fall catalogue at the end of every five years, 42 

provide in their regulations that members of the legislature 

may take books, 42 

provide that no books be taken by unauthorized persons for 

any purpose, 42 

Tucker, Gideon J., regent, 199, 210 

Tuition, prices and rates of, form of reporting, 117 

price of, form of report in regard to, for academies, 117 

for literary colleges, 144 

medical do 151 

T3-ndal on Heat, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Tytler's Universal History, recommended for academy libraries. . . 93 

Ulster female seminary, location, etc., of, 222 

Unadilla academy, location, etc., of, 222 

Union academy ot Belleville, location, etc., of, 222 

college, location, etc., of, 214 

free schools, academical departments authorized to be estab- 
lished in 17, 18 

subject to the visitation of the regents, IS 

qualifications for entrance thereto, 18 

existing academies may be adopted as academical departments 18 

of, 18 

entitled to all the benefits and privileges of academies, 18, 19 

no general provision of law in regard to corporate names of 

academical departments of, 223 

hall academy, location, etc., of, 222 

village academy, now Greenwich union i5chool, location, etc., of, 218 
United States deposit fund, $28,000 of income of, to be apportioned, 

with $12,000 of literature fund, tor the benefit of academies, — 32 
to be applied exclusively to the payment of teachers' salaries, ... 34 

(see also Distnbution, and Literature Fund..) 
payment of distributive share of literature fund and, to be with- 
held, until grants for books, etc., are fully accounted for, 88 

University convocation, semi-annual session of the regents to be 

held at the time of, 154 

membership of, how constituted, 160 

officers of, how constituted, 160 

time of meeting of, 160 

executive committee of, how constituted, IKO 

committee of necrology of, how constituted, 161 

duty ol members of. in regard to necrology, 161 

secretary of, to publish original resolutions of 1863, etc., from 

year to year, ^61 

University of Albany, law department, location, etc., of, 215 

of Buffalo, medical department, location, etc., of, 215 

of the city of New York, location, etc., of, 215 

medical department, location, etc., of, 215 

of the State of New York, instituted, 1 



lA^DEX. 293 

PAGE. 

University of the State of New York — {Continued) : 

name and corporate powers of, 1 

laws relative to, and to tLe reofents of, 1-54 

act to institute, cited, 9 

regents of. constituted trustees of the state library, 40 

when incorporated, 162, 172, 176, 214 

original institution and organization of, 162-223 

obsolete legislative acts instituting, 162-193 

of May 1, 17S4 162-172 

Nov. 26, 1784 172-175 

April 13, 1787, 176-193 

of Rochester, location, etc., of, 215 

Upham's Intellectual Philosophy, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 94 

Ure's Chemical and Mineralogical Dictionary, recommended for 

academy libraries, 97 

Utica academy, location, etc., of, 222 

female academy, location, etc., of, 222 

Vacancies, in colleoe boards of trustees, to be by such filled boards, 22 

mtiy be declared on account of absences of members, 22 

trustees of academies authorized to fill, in their own number,... 24 

in stock corporations, how filled, .. 27 

Vacations, academic, form of reporting, 118 

Van Brtint, Rutger, regent, 165, 195, 210 

Van Buren, Martin, regent, 197, 200, 202, 203, 210 

Van Cleve, John, honorary degree of M. B. conferred on, . ... 156 

Van Cortlandt, Pierre, regent, 194, 198, 210 

vice-chancellor, 196, 212 

Vanderbilt, John, regent, 173, 196, 210 

Van Dyck, Henry H., regent 199,210 

Van is ess, John, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 160 

Van CLinda, Peter, honoi-ary degree of M. D. conierred on, 158 

Van Rensselaer, Jeremiah, regent, 198, 210 

Philip S., regent, 203, 210 

Stephen, regent, 198, 202, 210 

chancellor 211 

Van Vechten, Abraham, regent, 201, 210 

Varick, Richard, regent, . ' 194, 210 

trtistee of Columbia college, 183 

Vassar college, location, etc., of, 215 

Vattell's Law of Nations, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Vernon academy, location, etc., , 222 

Vtsrplanck. Gillian, regent, 200,210 

Gillian C, regent," 201, 203. 210 

vice-chancellor, 212 

Vice-chancellor, office of constituted, 3 

at the present time, 1870, 213 

Vice-chancellors, list of, 212 

Viele, John L., regent, 202, 210 

Virgil's ^neid, as a requisite for classical scholarship m academies, 32, 84 

Visitation, power of, conferred upon board of regents, 4, 5 

of colleges and academies, authorized and required to be made 

by regents of university, 4, 5 

of academies, part of duty of regents in, conection with, to 

ascertain whether books of record are kept, 102 

Visscher, Matthew, regent 173,196,210 

Voltaire's Life of Charles XII, recommended for academy libraries,. . 93 
do of Peter the Great recommended for academy libraries, 93 
Voyage? and travels, and geographical and statistical works, recom- 
mended for academy libraries 97-99 

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294 IXDEX. 



Wadsworth. James S. , recent, 202, 210 

Wallace on the Globe?, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

WallkiJl academy and union school, location, etc., of, 222 

Walton academy and union school, location, etc., of, 222 

Walworth academy, location, etc. of. 222 

Warden, David B.. honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Warren, Leonard G., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Warrensburgh academy, location, etc., of, 222 

Warsaw unibn school and academy, location, etc., of, 222 

Warwick institute, location, etc., of, 222 

Washington academy, location, etc., of, 222 

Washington's Letters, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Waterloo union school and academy, location, etc., of, 222 

Watertown high school, location, etc., of, 222 

Watkins academy and union school, location, etc., of, 222 

Watkins, Hiram, honorary degree ofM. D., conferred on, 159 

Watson, James, regent, 203,210 

Watson's Apology, recommended for academy libraries, 91 

life of Philip II.. and Philip III., recommended for academy 

libraries, 94 

Waverly institute, location, etc., of, 222 

Wayland's Human Responsibility, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 101 

Moral Philosophy, recommended for academy libraries, 94 

Political Economy, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Weriver, Abram B., regent, 199,210,213 

Webster academy, location, etc., of, 222 

Webster, Joshua, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, ' 96 

Works, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

Weed, John W., honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Wells college, location, etc., of, 215 

Wendell, Peter, regent, 200,210 

chancellor, 211 

West, Silas, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 159 

Westerlo. Eilardus, regent, 177,202,210 

Westfield academy and union school, location, etc., of, 222 

We^tport uni(m school and academy, location, etc., of, 222 

West Winfield academy, location, etc., of, 222 

Wetmore. Prosper M.. regent 199, 203, 210, 213 

Whately's Logic, recommended for academy libraries, 94 

Rhetoric, recommended for academy libraries, 101 

Wheaton's History of the Northmen, recommended for academy 

libraries, 94 

International Law, recommended for academy libraries, 95 

White, Bartow, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 158 

Joseph, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

White's Eighteen Christian Centuries, recommended for academy 

libraries, 94 

History of France, recommended for academy libraries, 94 

Whitestown seminary, location, etc., of, 223 

Whitney's Point union school and academy, location, etc., of, 223 

Wilkes' United States Exploring Expedition, recommended for aca- 
demy libraries, 99 

Williams, John, regent, 165, 195, 210 

Nathan, regent 200.211 

Williams' History of Vermont, recommended for academy libraries,. 94 

Middle Kingdom (China), recommended for academy libraries, . . . 99. 



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William son's Historj' of North Carolina, recommended for academy- 
libraries, 94 

Williamsville academy, location, etc, of, 223 

Willoughby, Westel, Jr., lionorary deorree of M. D. conferred on, . . . 156" 

Wilson Collegiate institute, location, etc., of, 223 

Wilson, James, trustee of Columbia college, 183 

Wilson's Evidence of Christianity, recommended for academy libra- 
ries, 91 

Windsor academy and union school, location, etc , of, 223 

Wines' Hints on Education, recommended for academy libraries,... I'OO 
Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry, recommended for academy libraries, . . 94 

Wisner. Henry, regent, I(j4, 195, 21_ 

Wolcott union school and academy, formerly Leavenworth institute. 

location, etc., of, ••• '. .223 

WoUaston's Religion of Nature, recommended for academy libraries, 91 
Women's Medical College of the New York infirmary for ■women and 

children, location, etc., of, . . 215 

Wood's Botany, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Woodford. Stewart L., regent, 199-211 

WoodhuU academy, locdtion, etc., of, 228 

Woodruff", Hunlock, regent, 173,196.311 

Woodworth, John, regent 201,211 

Woolworth, Samuel B.. secretary of regents, 212,213 

Worcester's Dictionary, recommended'fcr academy libraries, 96 

Wright, Silas, regent, 197, 211 

Yale College Mathematics, recommended for academy libraries, 97 

Yates, Abraham, regent, 194, 211 

academy, location, etc. , of, 223 

Christopher, regent 164, 195, 211 

Christopher C, honorary degree of M. D. conferred on, 156 

Christopher P.. regent, 164. 195, 211 

Joseph C. regent 197, 199, 211 

Peter W., regent, 173.196,211 

polytechnic institute, location, etc., of, 223 

Year, academic, date of close of, to be fi^xed by the trustees, 104 

Young, John, regent, 197,211 

Samuel, regent, 199, 203, 211 

Young's Government Class Book, recommended for academy libra- 
ries 95 

Poems, recommended for academy libraries, 99 



